Word: volsteadism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Joseph A. Capps, Chicago, "is the abuse of the physician's license to prescribe alcohol. It is well-known that most of the liquor dispensed by druggists on physicians' prescriptions is not intended for the treatment of the sick. Whatever we, as individuals, may think of the Volstead Law, we are morally bound to restrict prescriptions to medicinal purposes. Selling one's prescription blanks to the druggist is worse than fee splitting, and should be cause for exclusion from membership in the American Medical Association!" Subcostalgia. The surgical section heard Dr. Marshall Clinton, associate professor of surgery...
...Missouri Society of New York (TIME, May 12, EDUCATION), attacked prohibition. Prohibition is a hobby of The Monitor. Dr. Butler 'did not advocate nonenforcement of the law; on the contrary, he placed himself on record as favoring obedience to the law; but he did demand that the Volstead Act and the 18th Amendment should be repealed as infractions of freedom and causes of immorality. A thorough search of a file of The Monitor failed to disclose that that paper made any mention of the speech on the following day. On the second day, a little three-inch article appeared...
...there is something more than the weather and the soot and the Volstead Act to explain the lack of color and noise, of bonfires, fireworks, and ringing campaign cries like "Tippecanoe and Tyler, too." The figure which the faithful Vermont delegation made singing in overcoats what was intended to be a warm and rousing song, "Keep Cool and Keep Coolidge", largely explains the nature of the convention...
...against Mr. Wheeler. Attorney General Stone was reported as saying that the case against Mr. Wheeler would be pressed. Zihlman, Langley. A committee of the House, which was investigating charges against two Representatives -Zihlman of Maryland for accepting a bribe, and Langley of Kentucky for conspiracy to violate the Volstead Act-returned a report. In the Zihlman case the committee agreed unanimously that conflicting evidence had been heard and that "taken as a whole . . . the evidence does not establish the truth of the charge." In the Langley case, the committee had suspended inquiry when the Representative was indicted...
Unfortunately, the Western critics have chosen their arguments neither wisely nor well. To urge that "wet" jokes stand in the way of creating respect for all laws and especially obedience to the Volstead Act is not in the least convincing to those people who doubt the value of law in general and prohibition statutes in particular; yet it is this class that must be persuaded to discard "wet" humor. The only needed reason for discarding the prohibition joke is obviously that it is no longer funny. While the real arguments may not have been stated it is, nevertheless, surprising that...