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...also determine what liquor is most commonly imbibed. The last two questions, dealing with the Eighteenth Amendment, are substantially the same as those asked in previous referendums. In 1924 the majority was in favor of light wines and beer. In 1926 the undergraduates voted four to one against the Volstead Act, and favored government control of sale and manufacture of liquor...
...continue under the present veil of public abstinence and private indulgence. There is no doubt but what a widespread consumption of liquor is an economic and social problem, and is in fact well recognized as such, but if the country is not prepared for such a plunge as the Volstead Act represents, a more moderate approach is to be sought...
...Andrew Volstead,--"In my opinion the prohibition movement is as satisfactory as possible. Agents have informed me that it is impossible for persons unacquainted with a city or town to purchase liquor from bootleggers of that locality...
...will not join with the CRIMSON in its anti-Volstead crusade. The reason for not taking part in the movement is not that we disapprove of the object which the CRIMSON desires to attain. We believe, however, that a college newspaper exists for two purposes: to bring news items of general college interest to the students and to influence campus opinion as much as may be possible on topics pertaining to college. The discussion of national problems can find no legitimate place in the columns of the News-Letter or in any other college sheet except those published by certain...
...18th Amendment; Return of liquor control to the States, leaving to the Federal Government only its duty of restricting interstate liquor shipments. Such a Wet formula was known as "Repeal & Return." Political realists who considered such a drastic step impracticable and visionary alternately proposed that only the Volstead Act be repealed and the 18th Amendment be specifically amended to permit local option...