Word: volsteadism
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...Granite Falls, Minn. Andrew John Volstead received newshawks with his feet on a rolltop desk in his law office. "Anything I might say could do nobody any good," he said. "All it would do would be just to bring ridicule upon me. If I were to say that Prohibition had been a mistake, there would be an awful uproar...
...legal." What startled many a reader was not Park & Tilford's high prices, for most of the items could be duplicated by reliable 'leggers at the same figures, but the fact that the advertisement, first of its kind in 16 years, was in direct violation of the Volstead Act. Were not Park & Tilford and the newspapers running the risk of fine and imprisonment...
...18th Amendment and Repeal. With women Dry workers fruitlessly chanting "Vote the white ribbon ticket" from church steps and outside polling places, Maryland became the 27th consecutive State to approve the 21st Amendment. Minnesota followed suit, though Granite Falls remained 271-to-18 loyal to its Andrew John Volstead. As the 29th Repeal State, Colorado completed the week's balloting...
...which live 43% of the nation's population, had successively turned thumbs down on national Prohibition by ratifying the 21st Amendment. The Prohibition Bureau had just had its personnel reduced 40% in the interest of Government economy, leaving a staff of less than 2,000 to enforce the Volstead Act from coast to coast. Andrew John Volstead, author of that Act, had just lost his $4,500 per year job as counsel to the Prohibition administration at St. Paul. Nevertheless, the scores & scores of white-clad, earnest ladies of the W. C. T. U. remained undaunted in Prohibition...
...Maurice Chevalier's, he is the House's Assistant Majority Leader. In disgrace because of his stand against the President's economy bill fortnight ago, he retrieved some of his lost prestige by sponsoring the Administration's beer bill on the floor. By amending the Volstead Act the measure authorized beer of 3.2% alcoholic content by weight, imposed a $5 per barrel tax, required brewers to take out a $1,000 Federal license. Re-enacted was the old Webb-Kenyon law to protect Dry States from Wet Shipments...