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...case splashed along delightfully, few Manhattanites really caring that it was part of Attorney Buckner's zealous campaign to make Manhattan as dry as the letter of the Volstead Act, few paying any special attention to Attorney Buckner's able young assistants, who conducted much of the cross-questioning. Yet for persons to whom Manhattan's nympholepsy and relative humidity have no charm, the case still had keen interest, since one of the young assistant attorneys chanced to be John Marshall Harlan, grandson and namesake of the late U. S. Supreme Court Justice Harlan...
While Baptists from 18 states, representing some 3,000,000 coreligionists (Southern Baptist Convention at Houston, Tex.), called beer and light wines the "inveterate enemies of the human race"; proclaimed unswerving loyalty to the 18th Amendment and hostility to any changes in the Volstead Act; resolved to reject "every theory, evolution or otherwise," which teaches that man is not the "especial creation...
...Prohibition issue, however, is by no means so easily disposed of. By no means every Pennsylvanian is a Smedley Butler in his attitude toward the Volstead Act. Indeed it is Philadelphia which gave Representative Vare most of his support. The race was heralded beforehand as the first direct expression of popular opinion since the recent airing of views in Washington, and, three-cornered as it was, it seems inevitable that some of Mr. Vare's political prestige is recruited from the wet faction...
With the results of the CRIMSON prohibition poll showing the sentiment of the University to be largely opposed to the Eighteenth Amendment as it now stands, comes an interview with Mr. Julian Codman '92, a prominent Boston lawyer, in which he decries the Volstead Act in the strongest terms. "In my opinion", says Mr. Codman, "drinking at Harvard never had any harmful effect...
...institution or a government forbids us to have these experiences, we are cut off from a whole part of life, and cannot hope to understand it. We must have our temptations, and we must fall, if need be, before we are fitted to meet them evenly in life. The Volstead Act is only another restriction on experience, and without being a hypocrite I cannot but urge every red blooded, virile man to disregard prohibition as it now stands...