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...your speech. But you can't do it with that gun in your hand. Come on, drop it down to me." The youth stared down dully. "Throw me your gun, that's a good fellow," coaxed Representative Maas. The revolver, loaded and cocked, plunked down into the Minnesotan's open hand. Simultaneously New York's stocky little La Guardia, also a wartime aviator, who had dashed directly to the gallery, helped capture the young man from behind. Representatives sneaked sheepishly back to the floor from the cloakrooms. The teller vote was resumed. The Congressional Record made...
Minnesota sired the sire of the National Prohibition Act. Pleased indeed was he. Andrew John Volstead, last week to learn that President Hoover had reached over 47 other States and 99 other candidates to choose a Minnesotan and a good Volstead friend as his Dry Hope, under whom the President purposes to consolidate all Prohibition activities. The appointment of Gustav Aaron Youngquist. Minnesota's Attorney-General, to be U. S. Assistant Attorney-General in charge of Prohibition & Taxation, had hardly reached St. Paul before Sire Volstead's daughter, Mrs. Laura Volstead Lomen, hurried to Mr. Youngquist...
Prohibitionist though he was, Kvale not only called the Volstead Act "the greatest tragedy ever witnessed by civilization," but denounced Anti-Saloon Leaguers as "cheap ward politicians wearing the mask of Prohibition." He condemned Prohibition agents who hastily shot down a Minnesotan suspected "of being a bootlegger." (TIME, June...
...giving it inner page columns and cuts. Ostensibly for educational purpose, its national importance deserves a better fate at the hands of the Fourth Estate. The practical value of having things thrashed out from the Peruvian, Swedish or Roumanian point of view by their respective North Dakotan, Ohioan and Minnesotan representatives is inestimable...
...populace was mistaken, Pugilist Lodge, Minnesotan, is not related to the Senator from Massachusetts...