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Section 29 of the Volstead Act was the farmer's price for supporting Prohibition. Under that clause he was permitted to continue making his own applejack or blackberry wine on the legal fiction that it was a non-intoxicating fruit-juice for home consumption. Soon shrewd vine-yardists seized upon Section 29 to supply the wine wants of city folk. Virginia Dare Vineyards, Inc. promised to ship a grape juice that would ferment into champagne in the home and thus be quite legal (TIME, Aug. 6, 1928). Seeking new markets for their grapes, seven California co-operatives...
...queried, 157 are politically Dry, 43 Wet. If free to vote as they believed, 61 would stay Dry, 70 would favor modification of the Volstead Act, 69 would support repeal of the 18th Amendment. If Modification were eliminated, 120 would privately favor Repeal. As- suming an actual vote in Congress, however, with political considerations controlling, Repeal would get only 64 out of 200 votes and Modification...
...Touched was President Hoover by the case of Police Lieut. David T. McElliott of Great Falls, Mont. It was Officer McElliott's misfortune to be convicted last year of an "indirect" violation of the Volstead Act for which he was fined $100. Rather than pay the fine he languished in jail, the while appealing to the White House. Last week President Hoover granted him a full pardon, remitted his fine, because he had been a good policeman for 20 years...
...last the legislature of Massachusetts has shown some recognition of the feeling of the people as expressed in the referendum on the Baby Volstead Act. The committee on legal affairs has reported a bill legalizing a 4.5 per cent beer. The reason given for this act, which shows such a strong sentiment against the eighteenth amendment, is that the workman will no longer have the incentive to consume the harmful hard liquors...
Senator Jones: "I've never considered the Volstead Act perfect...