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...features of Mayor Walker the previous week showed a jolly individual who might be a charter member of the Association for the repeal (or nonenforcement) of the Volstead...
...country was the news that Franklin Chase Hoyt, a Manhattan jurist, had won Publisher William Randolph Hearst's prize of $25,000 for a plan to modify Prohibition. The essence of Winner Hoyt's plan was to leave the 18th Amendment alone and simply to rephrase the Volstead Act so that it would prohibit distilled alcoholic liquors-created by acts of man-and permit beverages rendered alcoholic by fermentation, which, explained the Hoyt Plan...
...been a wet-Dry, a dry-Wet, in politics. In approving the end of Wisconsin's enforcement he warned Wisconsinites not to be misled "into the belief that traffic in intoxicating liquors . . . has become lawful or that the saloon will return. The Constitution of the U. S., the Volstead Act, and the Jones Law are still in full force and effect...
Andrew J. Volstead, once an inconspicuous Minnesota lawyer, has never deeply regretted the fame that came to him when he tagged his name upon the National Prohibition Act. It was a nuisance, of course, when intoxicated traveling salesmen called Mr. Volstead up in the middle of the night to curse him, and it was not altogether pleasant to feel that a large portion of his fellow countrymen regard him as a wizened fanatic. But Mr. Volstead has surmounted these drawbacks...
Wesley Livsey Jones of Washington, the senatorial sire of the Five & Ten Act, doubtless never gave a thought to the publicity he would come in for. But last week he made it clear he resented joining Mr. Volstead's category. Emphatically he protested: "There is no Jones law!" By this he meant, hairsplitting, that his measure, increasing prohibition penalties to five years' imprisonment and $10,000 fine, was merely an amendment to the Volstead Act and should therefore be anonymous...