Word: volstead
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Result: 175 Republicans, 177 Democrats, 1 Socialist (Berger of Milwaukee) 1 Independent (Kvale, successor of Volstead), 1 Farmer-Laborite (Wefald of Minnesota)?355, in all, favored the bill. Opposed were 34 Republicans, 20 Democrats?54 in all, most of them from Eastern states...
...Volstead law is unconstitutional as proved by Elihu Root, Republican. "It is true that the United States Supreme Court did not agree with Mr. Root, but Root is superior to most of the members of that court- especially since most of them have fallen into dotage...
These statements were made at the National Democratic Club, Manhattan, of which Thomas E. Rush is President. After the speech Mr. Thomas was interrogated. QUESTION: Why did the President veto the Volstead Act? ANSWER : Wilson vetoed it because he was a great historian and knew constitutional law. QUESTION: What effect did the absence of our men fighting overseas have on the enactment of the Volstead Act? ANSWER: "Well it took away 4,000,000 of our best drinkers and by that I mean men who took a little wine for their stomachs' sake...
...which, if new, might cause as great a stir as that of Eugene O'Neill's All God's Chillun Got Wings (see Page 16). For Queen Isolde has been given in marriage to King Mark; yet after a sip of a magic and non-Volstead potion she falls into the arms of Knight Tristan, and-they have an "affair...
...communicated with. During the first two weeks in January while the Secretary was at Palm Beach on vacation, he had encountered Mr. McLean on the golf course. Later he had called on the McLeans and had met Mr. Fall who was visiting them. They had talked about the Volstead Act, golf, the weather, the Mellon tax plan. Teapot Dome, not then such a notorious episode, had been only touched on. ¶ Washington bankers testified before the committee that Mr. McLean had not on deposit at that time the $100,000 which he declared he had offered to lend Senator Fall...