Word: volstead
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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Scotland Yard optimistically reported a 1% decrease in general crime over last year. But, as in the U.S. mass evasion of the unpopular Volstead Act, official figures were unreliable. Police have access only to cases where a complaint has been registered, a culprit booked. The chief evidence of character-loosening was conversation: Topic No. 1 (the war) had been pushed into the background by Topic No. 2 (how to beat the rationing restrictions...
...climax of a life devoted to battling Demon Rum, he introduced the law that became the 18th Amendment, helped the tall, droop-mustached Minnesota zealot, Andrew J. Volstead, write the Prohibition enforcement law. But as saloons became speakeasies and gangsters turned to bootleggers, Volstead got all the knocks. Almost nobody had it in for genial, kindly Morris Sheppard. He was no fanatic, and everyone knew it. He simply thought liquor was poison. Texas went right on drinking and re-electing Morris Sheppard...