Volstead
Proper noun
Meaning
Volstead
A surname.
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Perhaps the best example of Thorne Smith's acutely sharp social humor played out against a backdrop of the Volstead Act ( Prohibition ).
The separate Volstead Act set down methods for enforcing the Eighteenth Amendment, and defined which "intoxicating liquors" were prohibited, and which were excluded from prohibition (e.
The subsequent Volstead Act defined "intoxicating liquors" and provided for several exceptions, one of which as for sacramental use.
Some gang leaders were stashing liquor months before the Volstead Act was enforced.
The Volstead Act set the starting date for nationwide prohibition for January 17, 1920, which was the earliest date allowed by the 18th Amendment.
Under the state of New York's Mullan –Gage Act, a short-lived local version of the Volstead Act, the first 4,000 arrests led to just six convictions and not one jail sentence.