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...politics. . . . The Federal Enforcement Service . . . will never be worth its salt until it is taken wholly out of politics. . . The President should take personal charge. Not only has the political hamstringing of the Federal Enforcement Service had its seat in Washington, but it is notorious that disobedience of the Eighteenth Amendment has been flagrant in the Capital City...
Said William E. Borah: « The hotbed and noisy rendezvous of lawlessness, of cynical defiance to the Eighteenth Amendment are among those of social standing. . . . The ' red ' sits in his darkly lighted room around his poorly laden table and denounced those provisions of the Constitution placed there to protect property. The ' white' sits in his brilliantly lighted rooms about his richly laden table and defies or denounces the provision of the Constitution placed there in the belief it would protect the home...
...cannot under the Federal law, and you cannot under the University law, bring intoxicating liquors into any building of the University. Whatever you may think of the Eighteenth Amendment or of the moderate use of liquor, this rule holds." Such, according to reports was President Angell's dictum to Yale Freshmen at his reception for the incoming class at New Haven. Violation of this rule, the made perfectly clear would bring about instant dismission...
...customs inspection can be made. The reason is that if the pictures can be successfully smuggled into a state, the government cannot prevent exhibition. Congress can regulate commerce, but it cannot prevent the showing of pictures any more than it could stop the sale of liquor before the Eighteenth Amendment...
...meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs at Kansas City. At the same meeting a letter was read from Dr. Eliot urging the erection of a majestic arch as a war memorial rather than the founding, for the same purpose, of scholarships. A resolution condemning disrespect toward the Eighteenth Amendment was carried but tabled...