Word: volstead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cannon, 90, one-time famed Speaker of the House, was unable to vote last week for the first time since 1860 when he cast his ballot for Abraham Lincoln. In Brooklyn three other Lincoln voters (one of them blind) went to the polls, voted for modification of the Volstead Act. ([ Montcalm County, Mich., has its heroine-Mrs. Ileea M. Henkel, onetime schoolteacher, wife of the former sheriff who was fatally wounded while arresting a drunk. She was appointed to serve her husband's unexpired term and conducted a vigorous war on the liquor traffic. Last week she was elected...
...agents returned to wander around Cicero's grimy nooks. Suddenly, last week, a Federal grand jury indicted "Scarface Al" Caponi and his brother Ralph; Joseph Z. Klenha, president of the town of Cicero; Ted L. Svoboda, chief of police, and 75 others, for con-spiracy to violate the Volstead Act. Federal agents say they have evidence that the gangsters profited $15,000,000 by their liquor business in three years...
...descendants changed the family name to Folstadt, then to Volstadt. Most of the Volstadts were hearty beer drinkers, but not so the youngest son who felt the lure of the prairies of the New World. On arrival in the U. S. he changed his name to the simpler Volstead, little knowing that one of his progeny (Andrew by name) would some day put Volstead on the lips of teeming millions. (U. S. folk lore...
...From what famed sack-bibber is Andrew T. Volstead descended, according to U. S. folklore...
...York Representative Ogden L. Mills: "The Senator says those responsible for the submission of this question [The Volstead Act referendum] to the people of New York were actuated by cowardice rather than by conviction. When Senator Borah urges in Atlanta the enforcement of the Fifteenth Amendment, and defends Volsteadism and its fruits in New York City, he may be in a position to discuss the political courage of others. But as long as he remains discreetly silent on the nullification of the Fifteenth Amendment and selects the heart of the dry belt as the appropriate place to preach the sacredness...