Word: volsteadism
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...Manhattan many liquor retailers reversed one of the most ancient rules of business: a customer who wanted to buy a case-lot had to pay more per bottle than the single-bottle price. In California police cars careened through the streets of Oakland and Berkeley in the best Volstead manner, chasing gangsters who had hijacked hooch ; in dry Charlotte, N.C. bell hops and hack drivers bootlegged moonshine from nearby wet counties. And in Washington OPA huffpuffed...
...16th Amendment was ratified (in 1913) and Federal personal income taxes became constitutional. For the first time in U.S. history, tax delinquencies and defaults* may become really widespread. If & when that happens, the consequences to the U.S. will be far worse than the lawlessness that was inspired by the Volstead...
Scotland Yard optimistically reported a 1% decrease in general crime over last year. But, as in the U.S. mass evasion of the unpopular Volstead Act, official figures were unreliable. Police have access only to cases where a complaint has been registered, a culprit booked. The chief evidence of character-loosening was conversation: Topic No. 1 (the war) had been pushed into the background by Topic No. 2 (how to beat the rationing restrictions...
...climax of a life devoted to battling Demon Rum, he introduced the law that became the 18th Amendment, helped the tall, droop-mustached Minnesota zealot, Andrew J. Volstead, write the Prohibition enforcement law. But as saloons became speakeasies and gangsters turned to bootleggers, Volstead got all the knocks. Almost nobody had it in for genial, kindly Morris Sheppard. He was no fanatic, and everyone knew it. He simply thought liquor was poison. Texas went right on drinking and re-electing Morris Sheppard...
...year Judge Woodward quashed the case. He saw the situation thus: that the purpose of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act was to protect individualism and unrestrained competition; that in the 50-odd years since the Act's passage, a contrary philosophy had grown up-through the Clayton, Capper-Volstead and Marketing Agreement Acts-which held that such associations as the Chicago milk groups were not illegal, and did not act in restraint of trade, since the later legislation sought collectivism and control of harmful competition. Specifically also he noted that the Secretary of Agriculture directly licenses such groups...