[tobyhill]

I heard they started as bootleggers?

[Arizona Carolyn]

Old Joe (father of Teddy) made his fortune running bootleg from Canada.

[nightdriver]

"I heard they started as bootleggers?"

The story back then was that ol' Joe stockpiled hooch during the Prohibition era and had the tacit approval of Franklin Delano Roosevelt because of the generous campaign contributions.

When Prohibition was lifted in the early thirtys, guess who had the inventory to flood the market?