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That the violation of the Volstead Act in the northeastern part on the United States, especially in Massachusetts, will increase during the next five years is the belief of Mr. R. A. Woods, Honorary '10, head of South End House in Boston, as stated in a recent interview with a CRIMSON reporter. During his 30 years of work in organizing and directing this settlement house, Mr. Woods has had a great deal of experience in dealing with the drink problem as it exists in Boston...
Another matter of special interest is that there are five questions to be submitted in a Referendum to the people of the State. One which involves the enactment by the State of Massachusetts of a law aiding the enforcement of the Volstead Act is receiving much public attention, as is also one which provides for State censorship of the moving pictures. While these increase the interest in the election, it is doubtful if any of them will bring to the polls people who would not otherwise vote...
Arguing on the question: "Resolved, that the Volstead Act should be modified in accordance with the greatest liberality consistent with the Eighteenth Amendment", the Freshman debating team won the triangular debate yesterday by defeating Yale 1925 at Sanders Theatre and Princeton 1925 at Princeton. The judges' decision of the Cambridge debate, given by Mr. R. M. Washburn '90, Professor C. H. Gray of Tufts College, and Mr. E. J. Frost, was 2 to 1 in favor of the negative...
...Freshman debating team will face Yale 1925 at 8 o'clock tonight in Sanders Theatre, upholding the negative of the question: "Resolved that the Volstead Act should be modified in accordance with the greatest liberty consistent with the eighteenth amendment." At the same time, another Freshman team will argue the affirmative of the same question against Princeton 1925 at Princeton...
...wholly alone, perhaps because--like the Japanese playwright who attacked a woman with a club--they wanted to see what would happen. The result has been a bill prepared by the House, providing for the deportation of all aliens convicted of violation of the Narcotic and of the Volstead Acts. Some of the anti-prohibition minority suggested that such a ruling might interfere with the verdict of the juries if they felt deportation too severe a penalty. But inasmuch as violation of the Volstead Act is an attack on the Constitution and so high treason, the House passed the bill...