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Whiskey Protest. " Attention has previously been called to numerous arbitrary restrictions imposed on the medical profession by unnecessary restrictive enforcement regulations regarding medicinal agents. I need only mention the statement on the back of a recent issue of the Volstead prescription book: i. e., 'You are personally responsible for this book. It will not be replaced if lost and failure to properly safeguard it will result in revocation of your permit.' Such a statement may be characterized only as insulting to an honored profession."?Wendell C. Phillips, retiring President...
...President restored U. S. citizenship rights to the famed La Montagne brothers (Rene, William, Morgan, Montaigu), alert Manhattanites, who succeeded their father in the liquor business before Prohibition, supplied champagne to members of the Racquet & Tennis Club after Prohibition, were jailed in 1923 for violating the Volstead...
...Runners. British subjects on the high seas may be punished by the U. S. under the Volstead Act, if they are hovering with rumful purpose anywhere off the coast of the U. S. Thus did Mr. Chief Justice William Howard Taft of the Supreme Court interpret last week the 1925 liquor treaty between the U. S. and Great Britain. Said he: "To give immunity to the cargo and guilty persons on board would be to clear those whose guilt should condemn the vessel and to restore to them the liquor and thus release for another opportunity to flout the laws...
...then there is no law. . . . "I agree with Dr. Butler that this is not a case which can be cured by the application of political soothing syrup, and certainly the Republican Party would not take a position in the next campaign upon the question of near-modification of the Volstead act. . . . "Then we come to the other proposal, which was hinted at. But Dr. Butler did not seem to touch it, and that is the repeal of the 18th Amendment and the substitution therefor of Government control, Government sale and distribution of intoxicating liquor to 120,000,000 of people...
...frequently brought before the people by the decisions of the Supreme Court. Certainly a good case can be made out against that worthy body which is all-powerful in the United States. One instance comes to mind. By one vote the Supreme Court decided against the legality of the Volstead Act. To vest so much power in nine men, or one man even in this case, does not appear to be altogether logical sensible or just...