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...Paul, Minn., Andrew John Volstead exclaimed: "Nullification! . . . They would in effect repeal the 18th amendment in wet localities by divided responsibility...
Andrew J. Volstead of St. Paul went last week to Rochester, Minn., underwent the famed, hyper-inquisitive physical examination of the Mayo clinic. The reputed Volstead ailment: kidney trouble...
...legality of the sale of unfermented grape juice was admitted by Prohibition Commissioner Doran. But he was much less sure that Senator Gould had not violated the Volstead Act by making it into wine under the company's instructions, though it is not the Prohibition Unit's policy to raid winemakers' homes where no sale has occurred. Superintendent Francis Scott McBride of the Anti-Saloon League repudiated the Maine Senator as a Dry, characterized him as a "Wet-Wet," predicted his defeat this fall...
Nowhere could Senator Glass find that President Hoover was pledged never to try to alter the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act: "In the campaign the most he ever said was that he did 'not favor the repeal of the 18th Amendment' but he nowhere has said that he might not advocate modification...
Politicians, reading the Organization's first manifesto, paused to ponder these words: "We deplore the evident hypocrisy of many of those who hold or seek public office. Too often it is cynically assumed that so far as the Volstead law is concerned a man's acts need not conform with his votes. We believe in exposing such hypocrisy, because such men are unfit for any public trust...