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...Capitol's legislative and judicial laboratories, a decade of scrutiny and debate has been expended upon those cloudy tinctures, the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act. Since the Volstead Act (1919) the only major refinement of the Federal liquor code was the Jones Act (1929), denning violations as felonies (instead of misdemeanors) and establishing maximum penalties (five years, $10,000). Under President Hoover's urging, further refinements progressed last week in Congress and Supreme Court...
Another reason why the buyer was not specified in the Volstead Act was Dry fear that such a provision would endanger the bill's passage. Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, framer of the 18th Amendment, was among those who reasoned thus. The Supreme Court's decision and a decade of Prohibition have now changed Senator Sheppard's attitude: last week he proposed a bill to make purchases criminal...
...true that years may pass before the Volstead Act is modified, but for the battle in the wine markets of the United States, which will perhaps open in a few weeks, the other wine nations of Europe are now preparing themselves. Spain must not let other nations get in ahead...
Senator Henry Justin Allen of Kansas: "If we spent 10% of the money we have expended for enforcement of the Volstead Act upon [advertising] the duty of obeying the law, and the daily effect of alcohol, we would almost have cured the anti-Volstead people. . . . There is some doubt as to whether the London Treaty will go over . . . because none of us has been compelled to read it. Turn it over to a modern advertising agency and we will not be able to dodge...
...deal in Prohibition" it was under what the Supreme Court called its ''loose construction" of the Volstead Act. All bottlemen, barrelmen, maltmen, hopmen and all who handle their goods were put on notice of what to expect when Prohibition Commissioner Doran declared...