Word: volstead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Died. Magician Howard Thurston, 67; in Miami Beach, Fla. His most adroit tricks often embarrassed people of : In Washington he once removed a genuine bottle of whiskey from Andrew J. Volstead's pocket. At the White House, he smashed President Coolidge's watch with a hammer, produced a loaf of bread, cut it apart, pulled out the watch, ticking and whole...
...Manhattan, 4,000 mi. away, Carl Joys Lomen, son of a late Alaskan judge, brother of an Alaskan Senator, husband of Andrew Volstead's daughter Laura and supersalesman of reindeer meat, announced that he was off to Washington to get help for his fellow-townsmen. "The lack of shelter for the 700 to 900 whites who usually winter in Nome will be hard to overcome," said he. "But the most urgent need is for food, medical supplies and the like which cannot be brought in from the outside in quantities after the freeze...
...voted for: 18th Amendment (1917), Volstead Act (1919), Soldier Bonus (1924), Reapportionment (1929), Hoover moratorium (1931), Muscle Shoals (1931-33), RFC (1952), Bonus (1932), Repeal (1933), Economy Act (1933;), 16-to-1 silver (1933), AAA (1933), NIRA (1933), abrogating gold contracts (1933), St. Lawrence Waterway (1934), Cotton Control (1934), stock exchange regulation...
Byrum Gibson and Claude Chambers, prior to Repeal, were indicted in North Carolina for conspiracy to violate the Volstead Act. Both had been convicted of similar charges before. Chambers had even pleaded guilty to the present charge but had not been sentenced. After Repeal a Federal Judge in North Carolina dismissed the indictments. The Government appealed to the Supreme Court. Last week Chief Justice Hughes handed down a unanimous decision freeing not only 'Leggers Gibson and Chambers but also some 13,000 others indicted under a law that vanished from the statute books Dec. 5. The Supreme Court held...