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...Some immediate relief would come from an amendment to the Volstead Law giving a scientific definition of the alcoholic content of an intoxicating beverage. . . . Each State would then be allowed to fix its own standard of alcoholic content, subject always to the proviso that that standard could not exceed the maximum fixed by the Congress...
...against the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act. I was also against the Mann Act. Not because I want to get drunk or pay the carfare of a lady from one State to another, but because our government was founded on the principle that the central authority should not act except where the States cannot. I think it was a very unwise departure for the national government to attempt to regulate personal conduct...
...July 1926, he was convicted of conspiracy to violate the Volstead Act, was sentenced to two years in Atlanta penitentiary. U. S. Circuit Court Judge Julian William Mack regretted that the sentence could not be made longer...
...Smith is a man for whom I have profound admiration. He is undoubtedly the greatest State Governor we have had in half a century, and I admire his honesty on the prohibition question. I also believe, because he said it, that he would lead a movement to repeal the Volstead Act and the Eighteenth Amendment. Because of the large wet element in the Democratic party, I believe he would have greater difficulty in enforcing the amendment than Hoover would have...
Politically, he is an independent Republican, at least nationally. But he has made a vow not to support Nominee Hoover unless he declares for modification of the Volstead Act. Prohibition is his chief antipathy. He could not possibly dislike any human being so much...