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Tonight at 7 o'clock in Smith Halls Common Room four members of the Freshman Debating Club will debate the question. "Resolved: That the Volstead Act should be repealed in favor of an act tolerating light wines and beers...
...Prohibition, he pointed out that whiskey withdrawal permits reached a new low mark, 1,754,893 gallons (as compared with 2,645,506 gallons in the previous year and an average consumption of 130,000,000 gallons before Prohibition). There were 66,936 arrests for violation of the Volstead Act and over $5,000,000 receipts from fines, forfeitures and "compromises" under...
...deport aliens who violate the Volstead...
...meeting of the temporary executive committee, at which the temporary chairman J. S. Donaldson '27 presided, D. R. K. Barnes '27 was chosen secretary and the subject of debate decided on. The question will be worded: Resolved: That the Volstead Act should be repealed in favor of an act tolerating light wines and beers...
...question is not", he goes on to say, "whether the 'Volstead Act' is wise or unwise in its provisions, but whether or not the Constitution of the United States shall be conscientiously upheld and a lawful enabling statute enacted thereunder shall be obeyed...