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Between U. S. throats and legal beer stands this definition in the first chapter of the Volstead Act. By a majority Congress can at will modify this sentence so as to eliminate the word "beer" and up the alcoholic content to 2.75% or more. If, how and when such modification is to occur continued to make much frothy news last week. Behind all the heady hopes and thirsty speculation lay the following sober facts...
Legislation. Election results plus a mounting Federal deficit have given a great impetus to the beer-for-revenue drive. An attempt to modify the Volstead Act will be made early in the coming short session of the 72nd Congress. Heretofore the highest Wet vote in the House has been 187. Wets claim, however, that enough Dry members were "converted" during the campaign to produce 237 votes, a majority of 19. after Dec. 5. Never more than 26 sitting Senators have voted Wet. But here again sufficient conversions are claimed to produce the 49 majority. Senate Drys who have lately swung...
...legalization of alcoholic liquors presents a problem which should not be bungled by hasty, uniformed action, such as that which characterized the passage of the Volstead law. There should be a careful study of the results of control in Ontario, Finland, and in other countries where the government attempt to make restrictions other than those designed purely for revenue. Serious consideration of government productions in order. Most important, however, is the task of keeping the liquor trade out of the hands of self-appointed educators of youth...
...Homer P. Cochran ('29), James Carey ('29), Latimer S. Steward ('29) and Dr. O. Currier McEwen, assistant dean of New York University's Medical College. At the reception and dance at Manhattan's socialite Colony Club, guests who remembered John Davison Rockefeller Jr.'s preElection switch in favor of Volstead Act repeal investigated the punch, found it strictly nonalcoholic. Afterwards Mr. & Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller III left for a month's honeymoon in Bermuda.* secretly boarded the S. S. American Legion, on which was a party of newshawks on vacation. Reception guests: Henry Ford. Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone...
...record, considering Spain's tribulations. Firmly entrenched. Premier Azana celebrated his first official birthday by presentation to the Cortes of Spain's new Law of Religious Orders. This act, which Spaniards believed certain to pass, will implement the Constitution's counter-religious clauses, much as the Volstead Act implements the 18th Amendment...