Word: volstead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...concocted an oldtime almanack distinctly in harmony with the traditional mood of the season. To his aid have rushed a host of accomplished specialists with important contributions. Marc Connelly, playwright & seer, provides the general forecast for the approaching year; Critic Nathan suggests a breath-taking change in post-Volstead nomenclature; Banker Streeter* supplies a startling opinion of what 1928 will do for Big Business; Florenz Ziegfeld dissertates on his favorite topic; poems flow from many a pen of unquestioned talent; and, to choose from a multitude of other writings what may be most significant, famed "Texas" Guinan sets down...
That Mr. Andrew Volstead, a noted resident of a middle western city, has been forced to disconnect his telephone and substitute a private line whose number is known only to his trusted and less humorous friends, is by no means strange. During the day and night, according to the well-known legislator, the line has been busy with calls from travelling citizens who on finding themselves in his city, have seen fit to force upon him their opinions of the law which bears his name. Those who have suffered from strange greetings over the wire on April Fool...
...much less responsible that those who had led in the agitation; and, in proposing the measure, he was only echoing the sentiments of his constituents. These considerations, however, avail nothing with those who, having found liquor in the Mecca of the dry, feel that to telephone Mr. Volstead would be the cream of the jest. He must by now have tested the meaning of the poet who mentioned the repose of those who sink to rest by all their country's wishes blessed; and among the long list of those who consider themselves the chief sufferers from Prohibition, the name...
...people of the United States are getting used to prohibition," Johnson concluded. "Laws are better enforced, and there is a stronger feeling in favor of the Eighteenth Amendment. No law is ever perfect, but the Volstead Act, strictly enforced, will in the next few years become as nearly perfect as a law can become...
What basis existed for thus supposing Governor Jackson a lawbreaker? Evidence from no less source than Indiana's Attorney General, Arthur L. Gilliom. Mr. Gil-liom has been opposed to the Wright (state prohibition) Law which, drier than the Volstead Act, does not permit whiskey to be sold in Indiana even on a doctor's prescription. Seeking the Governor's aid in amending the Wright Law, Mr. Gilliom last week wrote to Governor Jackson, reminded him that during Mrs. Jackson's recent attack of pneumonia, a doctor had prescribed whiskey for her. Mr. Gil-liom recalled...