Word: volstead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday Andrew J. Peters '95, former mayor of Boston, termed the CRIMSON and Debating Council proposals on prohibition "an intelligent plan." "I believe the repeal of the Volstead Act is, quite possible," said Peters, "but I doubt that the Eighteenth Amendment can ever be repealed. State control of the saloon, not Federal as advocated in your plan, is to be preferred. I don't believe the difficulties caused by having a wet state adjoining a dry state will be very great...
...Carver, professor of political economy and a noted dry, replied to the criticism of the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act, by advancing the view that their benefits greatly out-weighed their admitted faults...
...long time college undergraduates have been struggling along under the burden of obeying or breaking the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act. The majority of students, at least in the East, have been breaking the law. It has been an unhappy, hypocritical situation for everybody and nothing is more clear than that a change, and it can not be for the worst, is inevitable. There has been a hands-off attitude toward college students that drink, and, appreciating this, undergraduates have been persuaded to let things go on, hesitating to upset the delicate balance that exists among town, gown...
...questions are in substance. (1) Are you in favor of enforcement of the present prohibition law? (2) Do you favor modification of the Volstead Act? (3) Do you favor the repeal of the eighteenth amendment? The results of this straw vote must be taken seriously, for the results from previous Literary Digest ballots prior to presidential elections have been amazingly accurate...
...their torrid talk did not change a single Dry vote in Congress. The occasion was the first official hearings given by the House to proponents of modification (TIME, Feb. 10). The Judiciary Committee had before it seven resolutions proposing repeal of the 18th Amendment, of the Volstead Act. Anticipating a large audience, Chairman Graham moved his committee temporarily into the vast white marble Caucus Room of the House office building. Some 200 spectators appeared, more than half of them women. Though their numbers looked measly in the great Caucus Room, their noisy applause far exceeded their size...