Word: volsteadism
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...keynoter of the 1932 and 1936 Democratic conventions. Before 1932 he was just a member of the Democratic minority in the Senate who had spellbound his colleagues on Drought in 1930. As a member of the House he had helped foster the Prohibition Amendment and the Volstead Act. He had been a paid speaker for the Anti-Saloon League, but in 1928, when drink returned to popularity, he stumped for Al Smith, later helped write the 21st (Repeal) Amendment. Now he even takes a toddy himself. Labor knows him as one of its early champions, but he voted for coal...
Side by side with the European situation, belated reverberations of the long-repealed Volstead Act rumbled noisily across the front pages of yesterday's Boston papers and singled out Radcliffe College for attack. The vituperative pen of a Greater Boston preacher managed to magnify the serving of sherry at a meeting of the Radcliffe Auxiliary into a drunken carousal; but investigation shows two important facts were overlooked in making these accusations, facts which dim the lurid spotlight thrown on an innocent gathering...
...seven States in which hard liquor is entirely prohibited, passed a bone-Dry law prohibiting beer, and the Women's Christian Temperance Union has launched a drive for $1,000,000 with the avowed intention of restoring Prohibition before 1945. Distillers who remember that the Volstead Act was preceded by just such an accumulation of Dry spots are ready to devote a large share of their considerable earnings* to the defense of their trade...
Past Presidents of Princeton have been so engrossed in academic pursuits that they failed to see the world tumbling down about them. Woodrow Wilson vetoed the Volstead Act, and John Grier Hibben led the movement for Repeal in New Jersey. But science tells us the climate is changing, and so it might be cooler now in Palmer Stadium than it was ten or twenty years ago, with a resultant rise in the consumption of alchohol. Or perhaps they believed, as this paper does, that drinking in a stadium, where neighboring eyes should be on the pigskin, not the bottle...
...carried in a state of delirium tremens and general paralysis of the insane onto the returning boat. The man who does not get the best time of his life in a visit to America must either spend his visit on Ellis Island or go about as Andrew Volstead. That for the moment is all I can think of to say to America, and I assure you it is a high compliment. Perhaps by the time I next write to you from Cambridge, Eng. (where life, as I have previously indicated, is a round of leisure) I shall have had time...