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...subject of the triangular debate is: "Resolved. That the Volstead Act, Amended to allow the sale of light wines and beers, would be preferable to the act in its present form...
...Intercollegiate Debate League, were announced last night by Coach A. G. Youman 1G., instructor in English, following the final trials held in Harvard 6. Two speakers and an alternate were chosen to represent the University on either side of the prohibition question which has been worded, "Resolved, that the Volstead Act, amended to allow the sales of light wines and beers, would be preferable to the act in its present form...
...newspapers began polling Episcopal prelates on the question of modification of the Volstead Act. There was a division of opinion, but evidently the strict prohibitionists were in the majority. Out of 24 who answered an inquiry by the New York Times, only five advocated modification. Two other bishops in favor of modification were found by the industrious (and wet) New York World. A few more declined to comment...
...Treasury. Meanwhile the Treasury Department after a conference between Lincoln C. Andrews, in charge of prohibition enforcement, and Andrew Volstead,* now a minor legal official (in St. Paul) in the prohibition unit, presented its plans for better enforcement to Congress. A bill was sent by Secretary Mellon to Senator Smpot setting up a Bureau of Prohibition separate from the Internal Revenue Bureau. Other Administrative measures were understood to be in the process of formulations have been convicted of offenses including murder, violation of the Mann white slave act, annoying women, a fake holdup, negligent homicide in connection with the death...
...opposed to the Volstead law as a State enforcement measure...