Word: volsteadism
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With all the chaotic conditions now surrounding the enforcement of the Volstead Act, why not inquire something about the special privilege accorded this association, where real gin cocktails are served at the monthly club dinners, usually attended by 100 to 150 members, and then consider the wonderful Fish House rum punch? that appeared at the last New Year's Eve celebration...
...declared that Prohibition was here to stay, that it was responsible in part for U. S. economic advancement, that the Press was grossly biased, that the Wets had no adequate substitute for liquor control. But like a thoroughgoing Wet he sounded when he said: "The 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act made unlawful the traffic in liquor-not its use. . . . Sincere friends of temperance have done the cause of Prohibition its greatest injury by insisting that the use of alcohol has become immoral." As a climax, Orator Fort plumped for home winemaking, home-brewing...
Reviewing the provisions of the Volstead Act, Mr. Fort cited the penalty section (No. 29) which reads: "The penalties provided for the manufacture of liquor without a permit shall not apply to a person for manufacturing non-intoxicating cider and fruit juices exclusively for use in his home...
...question of whether home-brewing was legal or not was soon enveloped in a dense legalistic fog. Andrew John Volstead, author of the National Prohibition Act, denied that there were any such loopholes in his law. But well known is the fact that the above-quoted exception was put into Mr. Volstead's act to permit the farmer, chief supporter of Prohibition, to make his wine and hard cider without Federal molestation. Recalled was the case of onetime Representative John Philip Hill of Maryland who publicly made high-powered wine in his home only to be acquitted...
Chairman Graham, wealthy, moustachioed, smart attorney for Pennsylvania R. R., was the special hero of the day. Successor to Andrew John Volstead as the head of the Judiciary Committee, he promised to "lift the lid" at the hearings and give the Wets all the latitude they wanted to make their points against the 18th Amendment. In addition to the repeal resolutions, arguments will be heard on 2-75% beer and on the Canadian system of government liquor control. Prime speaker for the Wets: Representative James Montgomery Beck, onetime Solicitor General of the U. S., expert guide through the legalistic mazes...