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...party to nominate Governor Alfred E. Smith, New Yorker, Wet, Roman Catholic. To newsgatherers he said: "If Smith is nominated, he will be elected. . .. Governor Smith stands for the same things that Woodrow Wilson stood for. Wilson stood for enforcement of law, and so does Smith. Wilson vetoed the Volstead Act and Smith is against it and in favor of amending it for the same reasons that Wilson vetoed it. I don't want to question the motives of some of the prominent men of the Democratic party who are opposing the nomination of Smith for President...
...bottles before they serve them with cracked ice or ginger ale. Prohibition agents need no longer search and buy; they may sit at tables and sniff; a good smell will convict. -The court reached its decision on the intorpretation of one word of the law. Section 21 of the Volstead Act states: "Any room, house, building, boat, vehicle, structure or place where intoxicating liquor is manufactured, sold, kept or bartered in violation of this title, and all intoxicating liquor and property kept and used in maintaining the same is hereby declared to be a common nuisance." The court ruled that...
...them into a goodly wine with a 13% "kick." They were seized by Federal authorities, legally, Judge Hand held. He ruled: "Possession of grape juice for home use . . . becomes unlawful . . . whenever the liquid becomes intoxicating, whether through natural fermentation or otherwise." Thus he sternly interpreted the paragraph of the Volstead Act that states that a householder needs no permit and cannot be punished for manufacturing "non-intoxicating cider and fruit juices exclusively for use in his own home." The law, purposely or otherwise, ignored the obvious fact that cider becomes hard, fruit juices gather alcoholic strength in time; Judge Hand...
...section given over to personal letters in TIME, March 7 you make the following statement: Comparatively "poor men" who have appeared on TIME'S cover: . . . Pope Pius XI, Alfred E. Smith, Paul von Hindenburg, Andrew Volstead, Doctor Ray Lyman Wilbur, Admiral Togo, Rene Fonck, Helen Wills, Joseph Conrad, Carrie Chapman Catt, Roy Chapman Andrews, Eugene O'Neill, John Joseph Pershing, Abd-el-Krim, Ramsay Macdonald. If these be poor men then us ordinary mortals must be paupers...
...What state sent Andrew Volstead to Congress...