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Comparatively "poor men" who have appeared on TIME's cover: Anton Lang, John L. Lewis, Pope Pius XI, Alfred E. Smith, Paul von Hindenburg, Andrew Volstead, Doctor Ray Lyman Wilbur, Admiral Togo, René Fonck, Helen Wills, Joseph Conrad, Carrie Chapman Catt, Roy Chapman Andrews, Eugene O'Neill, John Joseph Pershing, Abd-el-Krim, Ramsay MacDonald and Leon Trotzky...
...Boston Church Rev. William, Harmon van Allen pleaded for contributions of from ten to one hundred dollars partly as a thank-offering to God for the blessings of Prohibition, and partly to fight, "any conspiracy of pocketbooks empty bottles, or of bums" who should make attempt at repeal the Volstead Act in 1928. So far as can be learned no specific mention was made as to the use of these funds. It is not vitally needed for propaganda; the Anti-Saloon League profits by an immense amount of free publicity. It cannot be used for enforcement; the United States Treasury...
Clarence Darrow: "In Manhattan, I urged violation of the Volstead Act. I recommended the example of early Christians, who 'bootlegged' Christianity into the Roman Empire...
When the Supreme Court hands down a decision by a five-to-four majority the scales of justice may well be said to hang by a hair. Such was the situation last week when the court of last resort upheld the provision of the Volstead Act which limits the amount of whiskey that physicians may prescribe to one pint every ten days. Paradoxically enough, this decision was written by Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis, who often dissents from decisions restricting individual "liberty...
...things, he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a trustee of Syracuse University, a teetotaler. Last week he announced: "I am ready to burn all my bridges behind me in order to carry out the will of the people of this State" for a modification of the Volstead Act. Said he: "I do not think that 4% would constitute an intoxicating proportion...