Word: volstead
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...scurrilous correspondent of the wet Chicago Tribune pretended that the Summits Pontifex also said, last week, "We consider the Volstead Act immoral and contrary to the laws of Christ." Although the Savior and His disciples and the Virgin Mary did, indeed, all drink wine, it is impossible that the discreet Holy Father could have made such a remark within hearing of the world press...
...strange, therefore, that Canada should have assumed an attitude apparently so unfriendly in regard to Volstead enforcement. The Canadian government, which once struggled to execute the prohibition law in its own country, now finds the American system of tremendous financial benefit. Furthermore, its decision to allow so powerful a neighbor to fight its own battles to a finish cannot be criticized on this side of the border. Only too often, this has been the method of procedure employed by the United States...
Minnesota. Styled the "Coolidge of Minnesota" because of his economies and tax reform, re-elected Governor Theodore Christianson, Republican, is a close friend of Andrew Volstead...
...seems ridiculous to enumerate them. With the fewest possible exceptions, they all drank as much as or more than they did before prohibition. All say that prohibition is a sad, degrading farce. The only hope they have for unfastening the .millstone around their necks is that the Volstead act will gradually fall into desuetude and that the nation will, by common agreement, observe it in the breach as we do some of our old Stuart blue laws...
...people whom I have in mind are the first to complain of mob law, lawless violence of laborites and other disturbances of the peace, but when it comes to a violation of the 18th Amendment, and the Volstead law, they seem to feel no obligation to protest. They would look at this law, that is declared in the Constitution and in the statute book, with contempt. One hears intelligent people say: 'As this contracts my liberty, I don't regard it as necessary to observe it.' Although they don't intend to, if they say that...