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There is nothing in the 18th Amendment or the Volstead Act to prevent any thirsty U. S. citizen from buying a drink. 'Leggers and speakeasy proprietors are lawbreakers only because they sell liquor and transport it. Their customers may be scofflaws but they are not criminals...
...reason why the advocates of the repeal of the Volstead Act are so agitated at the present time is because they have hurled a definite challenge at President Hoover," said Thomas Nixon Carver, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy, when asked to comment on statements made in behalf of Prohibition by Professor Irving Fisher, Yale economist, in a recent address. "If he succeeds in improving conditions as they are, and materially cutting down the evil as it now exists, the main argument of the wets will be gone. They have been hurling the lack of enforcement into the faces...
Prohibitionist though he was, Kvale not only called the Volstead Act "the greatest tragedy ever witnessed by civilization," but denounced Anti-Saloon Leaguers as "cheap ward politicians wearing the mask of Prohibition." He condemned Prohibition agents who hastily shot down a Minnesotan suspected "of being a bootlegger." (TIME, June...
Last week Mr. Volstead, asked whether he would run for Congress again, made answer: "This is a sad time to talk politics but . . . it would be difficult for me to refuse...
Died. Rev. Ole John Kvale, 60, of Benson, Minn., U. S. Representative from Minnesota (successor to Andrew J. Volstead) ; when his cottage at Otter Tail Lake, Minn., burned...