Word: volstead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great meeting. To it came Bishop Thomas Nicholson, President of the League; Francis Scott McBride, General Superintendent; Wayne B. Wheeler, its Washington representative; William H. Anderson, former superintendent of the New York State branch; Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lincoln C. Andrews (in charge of Prohibition); Andrew Volstead, onetime Congressman; Roy Asa Haynes, Prohibition Commissary; Senator Sheppard of Texas, who introduced the 18th Amendment in the Senate...
...Andrew Volstead declared that, although it is not generally known, there is a penalty of 90 days in jail for buying illicit liquor, and two years for a second offense...
Other Cases Decided. Terence Druggan, convicted beer-legger of Chicago, appealed for a writ of habeas corpus to escape jail on the grounds that the Volstead Act was illegal because it had passed before the 18th Amendment was ratified. Justice Holmes read the Court's opinion sustaining the Act, declaring: "No reason has been suggested why the Constitution may not have given Congress a present power to enact laws intended to carry out constitutional provisions for the future when the time comes for them to take effect...
...denounced the Anti-Saloon League and the Volstead Act. At the age of twelve he had signed a pledge never to vote for a law permitting the sale of intoxicating beverages, but the methods of the Anti-Saloon League, he said, are unChristian, "vindictive, vengeful and mercenary," and "by its drastic methods of trying to enforce the Volstead law it has hatched the biggest crop of law-breakers ever inflicted upon a community...
...officers have come in for criticism from many quarters for the assistants they have chosen and ousted. But W. F. Rhinow, new chief in the Minnesota district, made an appointment last week that surely is not open to criticism. He chose, as his official legal adviser, Mr. Andrew J. Volstead, onetime (1903-23) Congressman from Minnesota. Said Mr. Rhinow:"I am highly pleased to obtain the services of Mr. Volstead. He is the highest authority on the law in the country and he undoubtedly will be of great value to enforcement...