Word: sheppard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exemption of the liquor purchaser was not made carelessly, inadvertently. In 1918. when Prohibition enactment was being debated, Senator Hardwick of Georgia frightened Drys by proposing that pending liquor legislation should prohibit the purchase and use of intoxicants as well as their sale and transportation. Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, father of the 18th Amendment, urgently explained that the Amendment, by prohibiting the manufacture, transportation, possession and sale of liquor, contained enough provisions to stamp out the liquor traffic. If no liquor were available, there would be none to use or buy it. The Senator did not add that...
Last week, however, Senator Sheppard changed part of his mind. He still had no thought of trying to legislate against the use of liquor. But he did want to amend the Volstead Act to make the buyer of liquor equally guilty with the seller...
Growth in favorable sentiment toward Prohibition, said Senator Sheppard, had made possible this extension of the Volstead Act. Furthermore, the Senator was annoyed by last fortnight's decision in the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Philadelphia, clearly exculpating a purchaser of liquor from any guilt in the transportation of what he had bought (TIME, Oct. 14). Senator Sheppard therefore offered to the Senate an amendment adding purchase to manufacture, transportation, possession, sale and other activities forbidden under the Volstead...
...Sheppard Amendment reached no vote, became no law. It was referred to the Judiciary Committee, appeared unlikely to reappear during the present Congressional session. But it precipitated a storm of dispute among Drys as well as Wets. The Wets, of course, flayed the idea as a further encroachment on Liberty, a further botching of a bad law. They said it would make millions of additional criminals, fill jails beyond the bursting point. Drys were divided in their opinion. Bishop James Cannon Jr. and Senator Watson of Indiana were favorable. Such potent Drys as Idaho's Borah and Nebraska...
...story appeared than Miss Oelrichs denied she was its author. Said she: "I have no idea who wrote it. ... But I intend to bring suit against Liberty." More surprised than Liberty readers were Liberty editors, who hastened to deny the truth of her denial. Said Executive Editor Sheppard Butler: "Perhaps Miss Oelrichs has forgotten she wrote the story. We purchased it some months ago." Said General Manager Max Annenberg: "We will sue her . . . only ask minimum damages. We must clear the name of Liberty."-for Liberty had been accused before of taking liberties with signatures...