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...days ago Mrs. Henry Peabody offered "Green Walls", her home in Beverly, for sale. Yesterday she quitted the city for the sunny south. Her departure was precipitated by the repeal of the Baby Volstead Act. A nine year old grandson waits her in New York. With greater political wisdom than his grandmother he read the handwriting on the green walls some months ago and fled this commonwealth steeped in sin and vice...
...party above their rather lack-lustre past for some years. The United States has been irked by the procrastination of the Republicans where this issue is concerned. The Democratic landslide was as much a search for remedies as an expression of public faith. The repeal of the Baby Volstead Act in Massachusetts may well cast its shadow on the national elections...
...women of Massachusetts have gone back into American history in an attempt to maintain prohibition. Paul Revere once saved the country from the British and his double now rides for the sake of the Baby Volstead Act. But the Women's Christian Temperance Union considers liquor a more formidable foe than the British Army for they have called upon divine supplication to assist their re-vamped Revere...
...Commission's secretiveness Washington quickly became choked with rumors and reports as to what its conclusions would be. Most Washington correspondents agreed that the Commission, though disappointed in Prohibition, would not favor repeal of the 18th Amendment but would possibly recommend to President Hoover some modification of the Volstead Act to legalize beer and wine...
...very significant that the enforcement law which they call the 'Baby Volstead' law did not become operative until December, 1924. Since this law became operative there has been no further increase but a slight decrease in arrests for drunkenness...