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...questions asked on the ballot are as follows: 1. Do you favor a change in the existing prohibition law? 2. Do you favor repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment? 3. Do you favor modification of the Eighteenth Amendment? 4. Do you believe Congressional action through a change of the Volstead Act would be legal and effective? 5. Do you favor the presidential nomination of Franklin D. Roosevelt? Desks for voting will be stationed in Langdell and Austin Halls and the ballots will be signed...
...come to the women, after this sort of thing has gone on for a while, that it is not so easy to find the perfect being and to pay for it once you have it. And if this goes on for some time, someone will probably set up a Volstead Act prohibiting any girl from going out with a boy whose physical fitness is more than ten percent he might be too intoxicating...
...listen to recommendations, but it is utterly impossible to bargain with a Federal court." Then he had allowed frightened Capone to change his plea to not guilty, had sought?and failed ?to have a grand jury indict him under the Jones ("5 & 10") Law for violation of the Volstead Act (TIME, Sept. 21 et ante). Leaving off his judicial robes, Judge Wilkerson leaned over his desk in a business suit, showed that he took more than a passing interest in the case...
...Brown Turner, copyreader on the Nashville Tennesseean, came an idea. Imps of Hell? It was a good name. With other local Legionaries he formed an organization for ''public worship, education and literary undertaking . . . separation of Church and State . . . temperance through the modification of the Volstead Act." He became secretary. Elected president was Lutheran Dr. Vogelpohl. 37, dentist, vice president of the Tennessee Dental Association, onetime commander of Nashville Pos; No. 5 of the American Legion. Headquarters were set up in the Bennie Dillon Building in Nashville. Welcoming male & female voters, the Imps set out to enroll...
...doctors, as a body, want modification of the Volstead Act (TIME, Oct. 12), chiefly because they want no Governmental restrictions on their professional conduct. They disagree radically, however, on the merits of alcohol as a drug or tonic. Few alcohol proponents are as "sick and tired of all the bunk" on the subject as is Professor Clendening who Wants to be quoted "freely as saying that the best inherent qualities in any alcoholic drink are in whiskey...