Synopsis

Mid-October, 1932. The country watched with keen interest the unfolding presidential contest between President Herbert Hoover and his challenger, Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was still hampered by the effects of polio. Under the continued enforcement of Prohibition, the government sought methods to render alcohol unfit for human consumption, a necessity for legitimate industries like perfume production. Should such alcohol fall into illicit hands, its usefulness to bootleggers would be entirely ne