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Andrew J. Volstead clapping his hand to the shoulder of Jesus Christ in the manner of one who makes an arrest; William J. Bryan spilling a jar of wine made by holy miracle out of water; William H. Anderson at the doorway in a derby hat. This parable?a raid on the marriage feast of Cana, painted by J. Francois Kaufman and exhibited last year in Manhattan?led to the arrest and conviction of Abraham S. Baylinson, Secretary of the Society of Independent Artists, for "violation of public decency." Last week an Appellate Court reversed the decision, returned...
John Philip Hill of Baltimore, Republican Congressman from the third District of Maryland, indicted for violating the Volstead Act (TIME, Oct. 6), was tried last week. And John Philip Hill was acquitted...
...decision does not greatly alter the force of the Volstead Act. That Act forbids the manufacture, etc., for sale, of intoxicating beverages and defines such beverages as those containing more than ½% of alcohol. But tucked away in the Act is a sentence which says...
...strengthens us tremendously in our position in asking Congress to give us light wines and beer. It proves what I have always maintained?that the Volstead act is hypocritical, crooked and marked by two standards...
...Women's Christian Temperance Union in national convention at Chicago comes out strongly in favor of the "great American uplift." Since Volstead, this triumphant organization has taken the whole field of public morals for its own. There is not a crime, from smoking of "the foul and filthy weed" to the waging of war, which it does not now consider its legitimate "meat...