Word: volstead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...observe in the morning paper that the Methodists in conference assembled have voted that to participate in even a defensive war is unrighteous. To these pious folk violation of the Volstead Act is little better than treason. But treason on itself does not apparently particularly revolt them...
Modification of the Volstead...
Adopted a resolution to extend prohibition to the Philippines, where the Volstead law does not apply, although the 18th Amendment does...
...discussing Prohibition, Mr. Pell committed himself, as he did in Congress against the Volstead Act. "Its faults lie in that it is applied to the poor and not to the rich and that it has no weight of public opinion behind it. If a burglar should walk through the Yard, you fellows would look on him with dislike and horror. But do you shun a bootlegger, when he breaks the law as much as the burglar does...
...Defying Volstead's heavy hand...