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...uncertain terms. Then followed an orgy of name-calling equal only to that of the day before. Needless to say, these remarks were "expunged from the record". And another expunging followed on Wednesday when some ill-considered remarks of Senator Reed's on the visage of Mr. Volstead vanished before the eraser...
...documentation for him, but what is its real explanation. The solemn senators did not say. They may have winked or smiled at each other, but the stenoraphers could not get that down. So, as far as the record goes, it must remain a mystery why Americans. Consule Volstead, liked to make trips to Canada or Cuba. New York Times...
...ratify a repeal amendment? There is none. Two courses only remain: (1) First to extend, strengthen and adjust the operations of the national enforcement law, and then to bring State legislation very thoroughly and earnestly into concurrence with and assistance of the national enforcement of the amendment as the Volstead Act applies it, with increasingly stringent measures to meet every new and ingenious means of evasion, or (2) to abandon the one-half-of-one-per-cent interpretation in the Volstead Act, and to read the words 'intoxicating beverage' as referring only to liquors having an alcholic content of more...
...always be kicking and controversy, but we believe by allowing the representative to partake of and play a part in the questions of waste, production, improved conditions and the many details that enter into the performing of a day's work, that it has the same effect as the Volstead Act had on beer. We still have beer, but the kick is removed and the same applies to labor troubles. We still have our labor troubles, but the kick...
Ever since the passage of the Volstead Act, the bewildered public has been vainly trying to discover the precise constitutional position of John Barleycorn. Every day new decisions and interpretations are given out, until one may be quite sure that today's ruling will be reversed somewhere else before the week is out. So completely are our law-making and judicial bodies in the hands of the lawyer class, that public life has degenerated into a mere contest to see whether one side can make laws faster than the other side can pick holes in them. "Diamond cut diamond...