#volstead act

[newyorkthegoldenage]

December 4, 1933 was the eve of the repeal of the 18th Amendment. Here, Bunny Swanson, embodying the Spirit of Repeal, assists happy art student "mourners" in stowing away an effigy of Prohibition during a ceremony at the Art Students League. This was followed by a processional along Fifth Avenue, where the "remains" were escorted to a ballroom of a hotel, to lie in state during the League's Repeal Ball and Revel the following evening.

Photo: Associated Press via News19

[todaysdocument]

Act of October 28, 1919 [Volstead Act]

Record Group 11: General Records of the United States GovernmentSeries: Enrolled Acts and Resolutions of Congress

Sixty-sixth Congress of The United States of America;

At the First Session,

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday, the nineteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen.

AN ACT

To prohibit intoxicating beverages, and to regulate the manufacture, production, use, and sale of high-proof spirits for other than beverage purposes, and to insure an ample supple of alcohol and promote its use in scientific research and in the development of fuel, dye, and other lawful industries.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Unites States of America in Congress assembled, That the short title of this Act shall be the "National Prohibition Act."

Title I.

To Provide For The Enforcement Of War Prohibition.

The term "War Prohibition Act" used in this Act shall mean the provisions of any Act or Acts prohibiting the sale and manufacture of intoxicating liquors until the conclusion of the present war and thereafter until the termination of demobilization, the date at which shall be determined and proclaimed by the President of the United States. The words "beer, wine, or other intoxicating malt or vinous liquors" in the War Prohibition Act shall be hereafter construed to mean any such beverages which contain one-half of 1 per centum or more of alcohol by volume: Provided, That the foregoing definition shall not extend to dealcoholized wine nor to any beverage or liquid produced by the process by which beer, ale, porter or wine is produced, if it contains less than one-half of 1 per centum of alcohol by volume, and is made as prescribed in section 37 of Title II of this Act, and is otherwise denominated than as beer, ale, or porter, and is contained and sold in, or from, such sealed and labeled bottles, casks, or containers as the commissioner may by regulation prescribe. [complete transcript at link]

[ivovynckier]

Why not reinstate the Volstead Act, boys? Oh shit, Justice Kavanaugh was too drunk to remember he assaulted his female costudents sexually!

[midwesthistorygirl]

This Day in History: Jan 16, 1919

The 18th Amendment which prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol for beverage purposes was ratified by the states. Movement for prohibition began in the early 19th century when Americans who were concerned about the effects of drinking formed temperance groups. In the late 19th century these temperance groups had become a huge political force. December 1917 Congress passed the amendment which was sent to the states for ratification. 9 months after the amendment was ratified the Volstead Act was passed by Congress. The Volstead Act provided the enforcement of prohibition and created a special unit in the Treasury Department. January 17, 1920 was the day that the Amendment went into effect. Volstead Act failed though to prevent the large scale distribution of alcohol and organized crime in America soon took over. In 1933 the 21st Amendment was passed which repealed the 18th Amendment. 

Source: history.com

[whattolearntoday]

A bit of October 28th history...

1492 - Christopher Columbus sights Cuba and claims it for Spain under the name “Juana”

1538 - The 1st university in the New World, the Universidad Santo Tomas de Aquino, is established on Hispaniola

1793 - Eli Whitney applies for a patent on the Cotton Gin

1886 - Statue of Liberty dedicated by US President Cleveland, celebrated by 1st confetti (ticker tape) parade in NYC

1904 - St Louis police try a new investigation method - fingerprints

1919 - Volstead Act passed by US Congress, establishing prohibition, despite President Wilson’s veto

1924 - “Taung Child” discovered in lime quarry in Taung, South Africa; paleoanthropologist Raymond Dart identifies the fossil as a new hominin species, Australopithecus Africanus (thought killed by eagle) (pictured)

1965 - Gateway Arch (630 ft high) completed in St Louis, Missouri

2015 - Research indicating Plague dates back to the Bronze Age in skeletons, 5,783 years old, published

[thepopculturearchivist]

January 10, 1921

[drnikolatesla]

"As it is, I believe my abstinence from alcohol during the latter part of my life has lopped off fifteen years from my life, and now I expect to live only 135 years. Alcohol is the elixir of life, but when this country passed the Prohibition Law I felt that as a patriotic American I should stop drinking whisky. I have not touched it since."

—Nikola Tesla

"Age 80, Reveals New Power Device. Says His Wireless Invention Will Gird the Earth With Energy for Industry." New York Times. July 11, 1936.

[bones-unreliable]

The government has really shown its’ human side with two substances; alcohol and weed. They were both prohibited for a while and then the Government is just like “alright sure have it” which doesn’t happen?? That’s such a human thing, letting us have things that are really bad for us...but really good okay we can’t help it