Word: volstead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coming year. On comparing notes, they agreed that the Atlantic states are not more than 50% dry and the country as a whole not more than 70% dry, and they decided that the next five years would be the hardest for them-that full enforcement of the Volstead Act cannot be attained before...
They also drew up a platform of "recommendations" including: 1) that federal prohibition agents be placed under the civil service; 2) that churches elect no officers who are not out-and-out Drys; 3) that Congress use the Army and Navy to enforce the Volstead Act; 4) that the three-mile limit be extended to drive rum runners farther off shore; 5) that all state and national light-wine-and-beer proposals be defeated...
...Anna Hozer, of Muskegon, Mich., had eleven children. Several months ago she violated the Volstead Act, and was committed to the county jail. President Harding commuted her six months' sentence before its completion, because of the impending arrival of a twelfth Hozer. The twelfth Hozer arrived duly, and was christened Warren Harding. In celebration of the event Mrs. Hozer again violated the Volstead Act. Mrs. Hozer and Warren Harding Hozer went again to jail. She said that she hoped again for Executive clemency. After a few days she complained to the jail authorities of being ill. They allowed...
...Lindbergh had to finish his tour by rail. Senator La Follette is resting at the Battle Creek (Mich.) sanitorium before going on a speaking tour. "I'm not sick," he declared. "I am here because I don't want to get sick!" Henry Ford told how the Volstead Act should be enforced:" Turn the Volstead Act over to the Army and Navy for enforcement. They haven't anything to do in peace time anyhow but go through a few drills and idle away their time cruising or maintaining social relations at some isolated post!" A Zero Mile...
Married. Alfred J. Kvale, saxophone player and son of the Rev. O. J. Kvale (who defeated Andrew J. Volstead in the Congressional election in Minnesota last Fall), to Ethel Virginia ("Billie") Stanfield, former Follies actress, at Crown Point, Ind., an elopement. Representative Kvale bestowed his paternal blessing...