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...spent the afternoon in private conclave. The President made a speech urging State coöperation in preventing immigrant and liquor smuggling and in enforcing prohibition. In a following discussion Governors Ritchie and Smith were the only ones who voiced dissent from the President's remarks. They objected to the Volstead Act as an invasion of state rights, as unenforcible and as contrary to public opinion. Before departing the Governors adopted a platform suggested by the President: 1) to coördinate Federal and local enforcement agencies; 2) to call on the press to support enforcement; 3) to call conventions of local...
...year the Republican nominee in Vermont is practically certain of election. Congressman Dale, although reflected to the next Congress, resigned his seat to contest for the place in the Senate. He made one of the main issues of his campaign for nomination unqualified opposition to any modification of the Volstead Act. Pollard is classed as a Wet and it is thought likely that there will be some breakage of party lines in the vote on the prohibition issue. Any advantage that Pollard has by being related to Calvin Coolidge, Vermont's leading son, will be more or less balanced...
...modification of the Volstead Act to permit the sale of light wines and beers...
John Philip Hill is a well-dressed Congressman from Maryland, socially inclined. There has been some very small talk about ejecting him from Congress on the grounds that he has deliberately violated the Volstead Act. Congressman Hill picked up this small talk and hurled it home with the following remark: "If the Drys throw me out of Congress, they will make me the first Wet President of the United States...
...Stock Exchange and James M. Beck, U. S. Solicitor General, the former a fighting speech against political meddling with business, the latter a solemn warning of the evil tendencies in politics and government today. A Baltimore banker was simultaneously cheered and hissed for a smashing attack on the Volstead Act; the connection of this subject with the business of banking was not made clear...