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...repeal there began to take unmistakable shape last week a new and significant agreement among potent Wet witnesses. Heretofore few active Wets have been in accord on a remedy for conditions against which they complained (TIME, March 3). In the 1928 campaign Alfred Emanuel Smith proposed changes in the Volstead Act to permit a higher percentage of alcohol in beverages in the discretion of the States. Thus, by his proposal, one State might permit no alcohol whatever, another State two, three, or ten percent, the maximum to be determined by Federal law. Other anti-prohibitors have clamored for 2.75% beer...
...Eighteenth Amendment, and then when the American people are thoroughly convinced that laws will be enforced and that our Constitution will be respected and that open deflance of the Constitution is a form of treason, it will then be time to modify the provisions of the Volstead Act and to declare that only beverages that are in fact intoxicating shall be forbidden...
...interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday Andrew J. Peters '95, former mayor of Boston, termed the CRIMSON and Debating Council proposals on prohibition "an intelligent plan." "I believe the repeal of the Volstead Act is, quite possible," said Peters, "but I doubt that the Eighteenth Amendment can ever be repealed. State control of the saloon, not Federal as advocated in your plan, is to be preferred. I don't believe the difficulties caused by having a wet state adjoining a dry state will be very great...
...plan of the Harvard Debating Council", continued Lewis, "I think that it is a comprehensive plan, but not one that would work. It evidently calls for the repeal of the Volstead Act and I am very much opposed to any such move. Despite all argument to the contrary,. I do not believe that the act is a failure. Its repeal would probably mean the traffic of light wines and beer, but this would not stop bootlegging. To prove this, allow me to point out the fact that in the short time granted to liquor houses to sell intoxicating liquors after...
...quote me as saying the Debating Council's prohibition plan is not worth a damn," R. D. Weston '86, noted wet, told a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "I don't see how, even with the Volstead Act repealed, the states could properly regulate the sale of admittedly intoxicating beverages; when the amendment, which your plan leaves untouched, forbids the manufacture and sale of such beverages. The only solution is to repeal the amendment and the Volstead Act both, which I am confident will be done. I have kept calm through the whole agitation and get a lot of amusement...