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This, more than anything else, the plan proves (in strong comparison with the Prohibition referendum). The majority of the members of the University and even more of the citizens of the nation are not interested particularly in foreign relations. It is Mr. Mellon and Mr. Volstead who come to everyone's home while the foreigners are far, far away. If the Bok Peace Plan does no more than to awaken people to the fact that the foreigners are not far, far away; that the United States is almost in Europe and it must decide what it is going...
...Georgia would stand up on the floor of the House and take the pledge which the gentleman from Georgia wants us to take, never again to touch the flowing bowl, legal or illegal. When they do that I shall follow them and give up rum until we modify the Volstead...
...sarcastic" letter to the Police Commission, Mayor Curley says that "a better spirit of cooperation between the Republican agencies in control of the enforcement of the Volstead, Act in Democratic Boston would in a measure solve the bootlegging problem in our city. Bootlegging in Boston is a Republican proposition and the odium for its continued existence rests with the dominant party in the State". This is indeed sarcasm. Perhaps Democratic Boston prefers to patronize Republican bootleggers, but to say the least, that is not a very loyal thing to do. The Democratic Party has always been especially noted...
...vote including all departments of the University was 977 for light wines and beers, 568 for rigid enforcement, and 525 for repeal of the 18th amendment. The strongholds of the wets were the college and the Sheffield Scientific School. Even the Freshmen were overwhelmingly in favor of the pre-Volstead regime...
...been necessary to divide the $200 between the two originators, Henry Irving Dale of Andover, and Miss Kate L. Butler of Fields Corner. Despite the alleged unpopularity of the wets in the West and the many entries received from that section of the country, Massachusetts, the stronghold of anti-Volstead sentiment, has furnished the chosen epithet...