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Said General Stone: "Some men think the Volstead Act and the Eighteenth Amendment are jokes, but they are laughing at the Stars and Stripes...
...requires a new standard. This generation in the United States has set up a standard for the elimination of liquor. More and more people are realizing that they must defend the Prohibition Law because in its violation there is danger for all law. If a man can break the Volstead Act with immunity, he can commit bigamy; from bigamy he can go to theft. No property, no individual is safe under the law unless all law is obeyed...
This meeting is being organized by the Student Citizenship Association which recently held a conference in Boston. The Washington Assembly, however, will be wider in scope, and the discussion will be confined to the extent of the violation of the Volstead Act and the methods of stimulating in colleges a distinct sentiment against such lawlessness...
Result: 175 Republicans, 177 Democrats, 1 Socialist (Berger of Milwaukee) 1 Independent (Kvale, successor of Volstead), 1 Farmer-Laborite (Wefald of Minnesota)?355, in all, favored the bill. Opposed were 34 Republicans, 20 Democrats?54 in all, most of them from Eastern states...
Search-warrants for harems will be the order of the day in Turkey if a movement to repeal the Turkish Volstead Act succeeds. The Ministry of Finance estimated that a revenue of $3,000,000 will be available if the sale of liquor is authorized again. The proposal is to permit the manufacture, sale and taxation of liquor, but forbid any sale to women...