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...Daugherty Department of Justice, star witness of the all-star oil investigations last year, many times tried, surrendered at Washington and was sent to Atlanta Penitentiary (his first time in jail) to serve two years, following failure to rid himself of a conviction for conspiracy to violate the Volstead Act. Charles G. Dawes, Vice President, Senate reformer, announced that he would make one speech a month in the interest of a rule which would permit a majority of the Senate to close debate at any time. Some Senators would like to forget about this proposal, but Mr. Dawes may force...
...action of battery, and to walk arm in arm is almost immoral. The playful spirit in which you live on your Rousseauistic stage is here relegated to children below the age of 14 years, and any signs of horseplay are taken as evidence of a breach of the Volstead...
Crimson traditional features of fifty years, and never has the CRIMSON failed to win 23 to 2. Although this year there will be no informal bar at third base as in pre-Volstead days, there is no reason to believe that the lampoon will be able to stand up and better against the CRIMSON attack...
Last week, the Wright Prohibition Enforcement Law went into effect in Indiana. Thousands violated it; scores were arrested; hundreds were about to be arrested. The Wright Law for Indiana o'ertops the Volstead Act for the U. S. in the following chief particulars...
Prohibition. Arthur Twining Hadley, President Emeritus of Yale, emerged from his retreat to sling a stone at the Volstead Act: "The great difficulty is that it comes as a marked infringement of liberty and at the time when personal liberty is in danger. We must take account of where we stand or we shall go down as other nations have gone down." He reminded the country of two earlier laws which had been allowed to die-the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, the Fifteenth Amendment...