Word: volsteadism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Volstead Act will apply in the Canal Zone except as to liquor in transit, under seal, through the Zone or between two points within Panama...
...longer a satisfactory Dry anyway. But the League's foes were jubilant. In the Duluth district, another Wet had won -the second blot-and in Minneapolis a Modificationist had badly scared Dry Representative Godfrey G. Goodwin. Apparently, thirsts were growing on the native prairies of Andrew J. Volstead...
Prohibition. Measures alike for making the Volstead Act more stringent and making it more lenient were announced to be dead last week...
...After warring he turned to farming. He married Alice Hay, daughter of Secretary of State John Hay, in 1902, and since then has been much in politics. What is concerned chiefly in the present situation is that in earlier days he voted against the 18th Amendment and for the Volstead Act. He has been rated nominally Dry, but moist in inclination...
...great pity that the 18th Amendment was ratified.... As for the Volstead Act, I have been convinced for a long time that its provisions in some respects are extreme and should be modified. . . . I shall be perfectily frank, however, and say that, while I advocate modification, I do not believe the modification of the Volstead Act within constitutional limits will solve the problem permanently. I think we must go back to the 18th Amendment itself and substitute for it a simple grant of power to the Congress. That done, I should hope that the Congress and the States (through...