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...subway that so conveniently links Cambridge and Boston must have noticed the advertisement, paid for by the W. C. T. U., which, accepted as truthful, would carry a pofgnant and commanding appeal. "Protest your children," it reads, "Make out highways dryways. Vote No for the repeal of the Bady Volstead Act on Nov. 4th." To make the message more arresting, the advertisement carries a realistic picture of what seems to be a drunken driver, a smashed automobile, and a mangled body...
...Springfield. A Prohibition referendum goes on the Illinois ballot this November, due to the 400,000 petition signatures obtained by Chairman Bernard Snow of the Cook County Republican Committee and his Wet friends. Voters are asked three questions: 1) Shall the 18th Amendment be repealed? 2) Shall the Volstead Act be modified? 3) Shall the State Dry law be repealed? On two previous Prohibition polls (1922, 1926), Illinois voted Wet two-to-one. Observers last week could detect no shift in sentiment this year toward Dryness. The Republican leaders at Springfield therefore framed a party plank pledging themselves...
...majority are recorded as favorable to repeal of the 18th Amendment, I stand ready, when elected Senator, to obey their mandate and I shall vote to submit the question of its repeal to the several States. If the expressed will of the people is for modification of the Volstead Act, my course would be in sympathy with the principle so approved...
After an effort of eleven years (to the day), and with no great regrets, the Treasury Department last week passed national Prohibition enforcement over to the Department of Justice. Attorney General William DeWitt Mitchell, as enforcer-in-chief of the Volstead Act, thus became the Dry Hope of Prohibitors, including President Hoover, who believed that only by effective coordination, under one head, of investigation and prosecution of liquor violators could the law be fully enforced (TIME, Jan. 27). The Secretary of the Treasury retained his pre-Prohibition powers over permits for industrial alcohol. When his Treasury post of Prohibition Commissioner...
...voted for: Tax reduction (1924, 1926, 1928, 1929), Farm Relief (1929), the Tariff (1922, 1929), the Navy's 15-Cruiser bill (1929), Reapportionment (1929), Immigration Restriction (1923). He voted against: The Soldier Bonus (1924), the 18th Amendment (1918), the Volstead Act (1919), the Jones ("Five & Ten") Law (1929), Farm Relief (1927, 1928), Boulder...