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...President Wilson vetoed the Volstead Act." (Nominee Robinson voted for it.) ". . . The Prohibition Bureau has been under the Treasury Department, whose head, prior to national prohibition, was largely interested in the liquor business...
Such, today, is the man whose name has become the synonym for Prohibition by virtue of his having introduced in Congress the statute to enforce the 18th Amendment.* Last week he had something to say after Nominee Smith had suggested changing the statute. Said Andrew J. Volstead: "Every organization against Prohibition will support him. They are too shrewd to be scared by any protestation by the Governor that he is opposed to the saloon. They know that the policy that he has advocated will in the end restore the liquor traffic if the scheme he suggests is adopted...
...Volstead left Congress in 1923 after serving 20 years...
Engaged. Laura Volstead, daughter of onetime Representative & Mrs. Andrew J. Volstead, of Granite Falls, Minn.; to Carl Lomen,* of Alaska...
...should continue the suppression of the saloon and of all public sale of alcohol. I have never seen the American saloon, but judging from what I have heard of it, it was a dangerous institution. On the other hand, I should try to induce Congress to amend the Volstead act so as to permit the private consumption of wine and beer in the states which desire it. But I should place a heavy tax upon these beverages which would bring in revenue for the Treasury and at the same time prevent drinking from becoming excessive...