Word: volsteadism
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...wines and beer. On the next page, the story of Coast Guardsmen who, drunk on captured evidence, placed a "huge railroad switch tie on the tracks" just for a prank. On either side of this last bit of news, the protest of a New Jersey State Commission against the Volstead Act the demands of the Prohibition Commissioner for wood alchol poison in industrial alchol, and accounts of action to come before the House Judiciary Committee for the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment...
...Good Hope," near Ridgeland, hunting wild turkeys. In New York, Mrs. Pratt declared that the story might be "all perfectly true" as far as she knew. Mr. Pratt's lawyer insisted that no case lay against his client because the purchaser of liquor cannot be punished under the Volstead Act, because there was no evidence of smuggling against him. Said the lawyer: "Mr. Pratt did just what you or I or anyone with money enough to do so and a desire to buy liquor, would have done...
...subject of the debate is to be: "Resolved, That the Massachusetts Baby Volstead Act be repealed." On the same subject, there is also to be a debate in Symphony Hall on Thursday, February 20, with the Debating Society of Boston College...
...took office Attorney General Mitchell has been training himself eventually to become Prohibition's Enforcer-in-Chief. With the solid backing of the U. S. Drys, Consolidated, he has sifted out his U. S. district attorneys, dismissing the lax, appointing only those who will press the Volstead Act up to the hilt. From his own Minnesota he called into service Gustav Aaron Youngquist as Assistant Attorney General in charge of Prohibition & Taxation, successor to Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt (TIME, Nov. 11). If and when the transfer occurs, Mr. Youngquist will probably take over the enforcement as well...
...presidential scandals, is the belief that the Supreme Court, like older and wiser vestiges of autocracy, can do no wrong. The citizens of tomorrow, the backbone around which the nation will be built, have shared this belief in full innocence of the ways of men and morals. When the Volstead Act was declared no infringement of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Young America wavered a moment in doubt. And then in the most amusing test case of the post-diluvian age, the highest tribunal decided that bootleggers must pay an annual income tax on their ill-gotten returns...