Word: volstead
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...Anti-Saloon League emitted word that the United States Steel Corporation, the Germania Mills (on Mt. Holyoke), the New Rochelle Coal and Lumber Co. and "the railroads," under "rule G," likewise have forbidden their employes to violate the Volstead...
...During the 1924 campaign the Association, as heretofore, will take no sides in the Presidential race. It will, as heretofore, devote its efforts largely to the election of Congressional and Senatorial candidates who are friendly to modification of the Volstead Law, without regard to the party with which the candidate is affiliated...
...prominent member of Congress during the last session made a statement that, if 60 additional 'wet' Congressmen were elected next November, it would then be possible to modify the Volstead Law. It will be the effort of the Association to obtain these 60 additional votes...
...make something out of this great scheme. One advantage will be on their side: they will have a virtual monopoly and moreover cannot be prosecuted for it under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act because farm organizations are expressly excluded from its provisions by a later law, the Capper-Volstead...
...Missouri Society of New York (TIME, May 12, EDUCATION), attacked prohibition. Prohibition is a hobby of The Monitor. Dr. Butler 'did not advocate nonenforcement of the law; on the contrary, he placed himself on record as favoring obedience to the law; but he did demand that the Volstead Act and the 18th Amendment should be repealed as infractions of freedom and causes of immorality. A thorough search of a file of The Monitor failed to disclose that that paper made any mention of the speech on the following day. On the second day, a little three-inch article appeared...