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Should the Volstead Act be modified...
...Whereas, the attempt at prohibition as embodied in the Volstead Act has hampered the medical profession, corrupted politics and made the underworld semi-respectable, thereby setting bad examples to the young who are receiving their training character; therefore...
Maryland's Palmisano: ". . . The Prohibition administration has sanctioned the blackjacking of citizens. ... I say, let us eliminate the criminals who are employed to enforce this Volstead...
Chairman Madden of the Appropriations Committee: ". . . The amendment offered by the gentleman from Maryland is a subterfuge. Why does he not move to repeal the Volstead Act, if he is in earnest? . . . The law is here and here it will remain. The law will be enforced, irrespective of what Maryland may think about it. ... I am a Wet-I would probably vote for a legitimate motion to repeal, but never ... for any such subterfuge as he now proposes...
Carl Wiedemann (owner of famed racehorse, In Memoriam) arrived in a special car at the Atlanta Penitentiary to serve a two-year term for violation of the Volstead Act. His father, George, president of the Wiedemann Brewing Co., did not go to jail with him, but paid the U. S. a $10,000 fine. His horse, In Memoriam, remained on his stud farm at Newport, Ky., munching bluegrass. As a three-year-old, In Memoriam outran Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair's swift Zev at the $50,000 Latonia stakes on Nov. 3, 1923. Two weeks later, Zev defeated...