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...Congress: Succeeding the late great Ollie James in the House, he helped to put through the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act. A Methodist Dry, he was not above accepting fees (called an "honorarium") for making speeches for the Anti-Saloon League. As a member of the Interstate Commerce Committee he was interested in railroad labor (Howell-Barkley Bill). His measure, a forerunner of the Railway Labor Act, was not passed but the vote on it a decade ago still serves organized Labor as a political index to determine its Congressional friends and foes. In 1926 he was elected...
...truth is that trying to keep college football pure and undefiled, and at the same time make it pay large sums into the college treasury, is very much like the effort to enforce the Volstead Act--it runs counter to the qualities of human nature. When the football player sees his college gather in a million dollars in one year in gate receipts and considers how hard he has been worked to achieve that result, he is strongly inclined to feel that he is entitled to some of the swag. To sure, this money is supposed to be used...
...find a single law-reformed drunk. Of course we found many alcoholic addicts who had given up drink for one reason or another. But never from statutory compulsion. . . . We went to see Jane Addams at Hull House in Chicago. We also interviewed Volstead with no result and simply dozens of leaders of the Salvation Army, W. C. T. U. and Anti-Saloon League. . . . We encountered a lot of talk and argument but we weren't looking for arguments. We were looking for people who had been saved from drink by the Volstead Act and we didn't find...
...acting chairmanship at a most difficult time. Taxes had to be raised to balance the Budget. Upon him fell the unpopular responsibility of drafting a billion-dollar revenue bill and pushing it through a balky House. He voted for: Declaration of War (1917), the 18th Amendment (1917), Volstead Act (1919), Tax Reduction (1924, 1927), Restrictive Immigration (1924), Soldier Bonus (1924), Reapportionment (1929), Farm Board (1929), Bonus loans (1931), "Lame Duck" Amendment, (1931, 1932), Philippine Independence (1932), Sales Tax (1932), Federal employes paycut (1932), Unemployment Relief Bill (1932). He voted against: Fordney-McCumber Tariff (1921), Hawley-Smoot Tariff (1930), State option...
Pending repeal, we favor immediate modification of the Volstead Act to legalize the manufacture and sale of beer and other beverages of such alcoholic content as is permissible under the Constitution and to provide therefrom a proper and needed revenue...