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Volstead Act: see under Volstead, Andrew Joseph Volstead Act. Officially the National Prohibition Act of 1919, the federal law (passed over the veto of President Wilson) made provisions for the enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment. The act defined an intoxicating beverage as one containing more than .5% alcohol by volume. ..... Click the link for more information. . Volstead Act 18th Amendment, passed by Congress to enforce Prohibition (1919). [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 286] See : Temperance |
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| That narrow view of religious freedom would have allowed prohibitionists to outlaw all alcoholic beverages without making an exception for Communion wine as the Volstead Act did. Harding's widely known flouting of Prohibition laws in the White House might be particularly cheering, were it not for the fact that he had supported the Volstead Act while in the Senate (albeit for political reasons and not enthusiastically). After the repeal of the Volstead Act in 1933, the family of Emile Sick purchased the plant but decided to construct a modern brewery at Spokane Street to reintroduce Rainier Beer. |
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