Prohibition

CHICAGO, Dec. 26, 1909 (UP) -- "The year 1909 breaks all records as a twelve-month period of antialcohol reform," is the opening line of a statement issued tonight by Chairman Charles R. Jones, at national Prohibition headquarters, which is to be read today in Chicago churches. The statement was issued in reply to claims of a reaction by liquor interests. He says:

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18, 1917 (UP) --The Senate today concurred in House amendments to the nation-wide prohibition resolution.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16, 1919 (UP) - Prohibition became part of the basic law of the United States today. Ratification of the federal amendment by the legislature of Nebraska makes that measure the eighteenth amendment to the federal constitution.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21, 1919 (UP) - The government of Great Britain has formally protested to the State Department against passports being given any American who desired to preach prohibition in England.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15, 1929 (UP) -- An intensive drive to enforce prohibition by the Hoover administration was foreseen today when it became known appropriations for that activity will be larger than ever before since passage of the Volstead act.

WASHINGTON, March 13, 1933 (UP) - President Roosevelt in a surprise move sent a message today to Congress calling for immediate modification of the Volstead act to permit the manufacture and sale of beer.

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 5, 1933 (UP) - Final ratification of the twenty-first (repeal) amendment Tuesday offered Rt. Rev. Thomas F. Gailor, Episcopal bishop of Tennessee, an opportunity to reiterate an assertion of fifteen years ago - that real temperance lies in control, not prohibition.

The traditionally dry southland observed the demise of national prohibition Tuesday with only a few legal "wet spots" showing in the otherwise vast legal desert of strict state prohibition laws.

CHICAGO, Dec. 5, 1933 (UP) - Beverly West, Mae West's little sister, entered the lists Tuesday as the representative of American womanhood in the first-person-to-take-a-drink-after-repeal contest.

NEW YORK, Dec. 6, 1933 –I want to be as modest as possible about being the first man in the United States to have a legal drink in 13 years. It didn't involve much effort outside of fast elbow work. The bartender handed me the glass when the flash came across the bar and I flung it head-on at my teeth. The time, I am told, was precisely two and one-half seconds.