Volstead Act

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Volstead Act is the popular name for the National Prohibition Act (41 Stat. 305), a comprehensive statute that was enacted to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and to prohibit the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors. The act was rendered inoperative by passage of the Twenty-First Amendment, which repealed Prohibition.

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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. Remember the Mormons: thinking about the nature of Marriage by Kaveny, Cathleen / Commonweal 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). Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s by Fine, Gary Alan / Reason 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. Sabey Corporation Purchases Original Rainier Brewery in Georgetown by Business Wire More results

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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.

Remember the Mormons: thinking about the nature of Marriage by Kaveny, Cathleen / Commonweal

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).

Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s by Fine, Gary Alan / Reason

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.

Sabey Corporation Purchases Original Rainier Brewery in Georgetown by Business Wire

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