When Theodore Roosevelt was police commissioner of New York, he enforced a highly unpopular measure called Raines Law, designed to cut down on drinking by banning the sale of alcohol on Sunday -- the most popular day for drinking.
The one exception was for hotels which could serve alcohol with food or in rooms, and almost at once bars started opening 10 rooms -- the minimum number required -- and turned into hotels. Of course, the bars were not averse to the rooms being used in any way. Very soon a huge boom in prostitution took place.
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