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Andrew J. Volstead: "I sailed for Europe...
...reason that this new change is notable is because the Judiciary Committee handles all bills on prohibition, and Senator Brandegee is one of the most ardent Wets in the Senate. It so happens that in the House a similar alteration takes place. Representative Volstead, head of the House Judiciary Committee (defeated for re-election last Fall) will be succeeded by Representative Graham of Pennsylvania, a militant...
...ounce" of his energy to his official task. Daily he was importuned to make addresses or write articles on his work. Finally he came to believe that the public and the prohibition cause could best be served by writing a "simple, accurate story" of his progress in enforcing the Volstead Act. The result of this decision was the production of a book on prohibition enforcement, which is now appearing, serialized into 43 articles, and syndicated, in newspapers throughout the country...
...representations of John Jacob Astor, General Fremont, Kit Carson, Buffalo Bill and others. To add to the local color there were log cabins, specially built for the occasion, and one correspondent recorded that the Indians employed were released from jail where they had been imprisoned for violating the Volstead Act. There the President delivered an address on the opening of the Oregon Trail, telling the dramatic story of the missionary, Marcus Whitman, and adding, "If it isn't true, it ought...
They also drew up a platform of "recommendations" including: 1) that federal prohibition agents be placed under the civil service; 2) that churches elect no officers who are not out-and-out Drys; 3) that Congress use the Army and Navy to enforce the Volstead Act; 4) that the three-mile limit be extended to drive rum runners farther off shore; 5) that all state and national light-wine-and-beer proposals be defeated...