Word: volstead
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...average citizen of normal intelligence deplores such spectacles as Heflin, Volstead, the K. K. K., the drab monotony of Mr. Coolidge, and like tendencies; he maintains a respectful and open-minded attitude toward Al Smith and wife, "humble example(s) of transmogrification," and kindred influences; therefore he resents being so subtly harangued by a paper that makes an issue of nonpartisanship. TIME grinds axes and shouts "News!" from cover to cover...
...Bishop Cannon an utterer of falsehood. Senator Glass told Senator Tydings he was behaving "indecently." Senator Tydings leaped at Senator Glass, had to be held. Josephus Daniels berated Senator Tydings for the use he made of Woodrow Wilson's name. Senator Tydings retorted that, nevertheless, Woodrow Wilson vetoed the Volstead...
...That the Volstead Act should be liberalized...
Henry Ford emerged from a 1928 model Ford sedan to browse in the antique shop of Mrs. L. A. Eaton at Conneaut, Ohio. His browsing cost him $1,100; cost Mrs. Eaton practically her entire stock. Strict prohibitionist, Collector Ford defied the Volstead law, bought a bottle of Milwaukee beer, vintage 1848. Two days later Ford employes celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Ford Motor Co. by working...
...Hays Myron T. Herrick Herbert Hoover Alanson B. Houghton Charles Evans Hughes Frank B. Kellogg Robert M. La Follette-Henry Cabot Lodge-Nicholas Longworth Frank O. Lowden Ruth Hanna McCormick Andrew W. Mellon Dwight Whitney Morrow Harry S. New Hiram Johnson Gifford Pinchot Elihu Root William Howard Taft Andrew Volstead James W. Wadsworth Charles B. Warren John W. Weeks-William Allen White Leonard Wood...