Word: mullan
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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Governor Smith has finally scaled the doom of the Mullan-Gage Act and set the seal in no uncertain terms as to his opinion of its fountain-head, the Volstead Act. Yet however much Wets may shout with joy or Drys thunder against the "deep damnation of this taking off". Federal enforcement, increased and strengthened, will continue in New York State and the status quo will be little deranged. Certainly Governor Smith is a close enough student of Constitutional law not to endorse an act which would have a flavor of secession, as some zealous prohibitionists have claimed of this...