Word: volsteadism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Andrew J. Volstead, onetime Congressman, now a legal adviser of the Prohibition unit, called at the White House office. The President had a cold; so Mr. Volstead departed. As he came out a bevy of cameras ("stills" and "movies") focused their lenses upon him. In desperation he began to run. He dodged and raced over the grass (which is strictly forbidden), behind bushes, around trees, and finally escaped with the cameras still clicking after...
...subject of the triangular debate is: "Resolved. That the Volstead Act, Amended to allow the sale of light wines and beers, would be preferable to the act in its present form...
...Intercollegiate Debate League, were announced last night by Coach A. G. Youman 1G., instructor in English, following the final trials held in Harvard 6. Two speakers and an alternate were chosen to represent the University on either side of the prohibition question which has been worded, "Resolved, that the Volstead Act, amended to allow the sales of light wines and beers, would be preferable to the act in its present form...
...Treasury. Meanwhile the Treasury Department after a conference between Lincoln C. Andrews, in charge of prohibition enforcement, and Andrew Volstead,* now a minor legal official (in St. Paul) in the prohibition unit, presented its plans for better enforcement to Congress. A bill was sent by Secretary Mellon to Senator Smpot setting up a Bureau of Prohibition separate from the Internal Revenue Bureau. Other Administrative measures were understood to be in the process of formulations have been convicted of offenses including murder, violation of the Mann white slave act, annoying women, a fake holdup, negligent homicide in connection with the death...
...opposed to the Volstead law as a State enforcement measure...