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Teetotaling representative with an act named after him
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volstead
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
in reference to Prohibition legislation in U.S., 1920, from U.S. Rep. Andrew J. Volstead (1860-1947), Republican of Minnesota, who introduced the bill in 1919 that prohibited the manufacture, transportation, and sale of beverages containing more than 0.5 ...
Usage examples of volstead.
The home-brewing of wine and beer for personal consumption was legal under the provisions of the Volstead Act.
The Volstead Act had seemed to have turned a lot of innocent people into alcoholics.
As the decade began, the consumption and sale of alcohol were prohibited under the newly enacted Volstead Act, which temporarily slowed the use of liquor in America and had consequences that lasted for years.
Not that Henryton, or Evarts County either, for that matter, upheld Prohibition or admired Andrew Volstead.