Word: volsteadism
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...punishable with a $1,000 fine and up to a year in prison. He had the firm support of the Justice Department, but the medical men of the Food and Drug Administration were opposed on the ground that an anti-LSD law would be about as enforceable as the Volstead Act. Chief adversary was FDA Commissioner James L. Goddard, who four months ago complained publicly about the harshness of existing antimarijuana laws. In a surprising turn last week, Dr. Goddard reluctantly endorsed the Johnson LSD bill during a congressional hearing before the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce...
...victories in decades were the 1942 election of a constable in a Kan sas township and the 1959 triumph of two town board candidates in Indiana. "I would to God we could elect one good honest dry politician," cried Arizona Evangelist Charles W. Burpo last week, but no Andrew Volstead is in sight and the party's prospects are at best as low-proof as the beverages they would serve at any victory celebration...
...complexities and inequities of the tax code, Caplin warned, "we have reached a danger point which strongly evidences an undermining of the tax morality of large numbers of people. They appear to be developing a lethargy over tax enforcement, reminiscent of the former widespread attitude under the Volstead...
...John Bull has a field day with the U.S. v. John Barleycorn. Proffered bribes to a Prohibition agent ran as high as $300,000 a week; Al Capone's liquor take was $75 million a year. At the outset, the Department of Justice had no plans for handling Volstead Act violations; after the act had been in force for one month, the first open court date in New York State was three years...
...thing, they must still seem like insect and animal. For another, their story is a problem because actually there is no story. And beyond that, they reflect a very personal, crinkly humorist and constitute a very Volstead Act and vers-libre period piece, the two things meeting in the on-the-wagon Don Marquis who said to a bartender: "I've conquered that goddam willpower of mine. Gimme a double Scotch...