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...classes of society; secondly, the recent baning of college girls from attending the football dances in the Copley Plaza this fall; and the recent instance of the ejection of the Harvard Football squad from the Tremont Theatre, all of which are directly traceable to the violation of the Volstead...
...bottle of mineral water in the other. The bottle slipped. He caught it with the hand holding the glass. Glass and bottle fractured. Three of his fingers required surgery. John W. Langley, Representative from Kentucky, Chairman of the Public Buildings Committee, convicted for conspiracy to violate the Volstead Act and sentenced to two years in Atlanta, is to be relieved of his post as Chairman...
...argument itself there is much truth in it. Italy would be better able to pay if she could export to us more citrous fruits than has been possible under the high tariff, more labor than under the present immigration laws, more wine than under the Volstead Act. How much more she could pay if these restrictions were removed is problematical. But if the restrictions were removed, loud would be the angry cries of the U.S. growers of citrous fruits, of U.S. labor, U.S. bootleggers. The question is the old one: "Do we want to be paid...
...Pittsburgh at the leading hotel, an "Anti-Prohibition Enlightenment Dinner" was held by the local branch of the National Association against Prohibition. Congressman John Philip Hill of Maryland, discussed a bill he will present 1) to repeal the Volstead Act; 2) to have each state define for itself "intoxicating liquors" referred to in the 18th Amendment, and enforce its own laws on the subject; 3) to have the Federal Government punish any person guilty of transporting into any state liquor more potent than therein allowed, the punishment to be ten years' imprisonment...
...Andrew Volstead declared that, although it is not generally known, there is a penalty of 90 days in jail for buying illicit liquor, and two years for a second offense...