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Volstead|ˈvɒlstɪd|
The name of Andrew J. Volstead (1860–1947), American legislator, originator of the legislation to enforce prohibition (sense 4) which was passed in 1919 by the U.S. Congress, used attrib. to designate this legislation or the period during which prohibition was in force.
1920Current Opinion Apr. 451/1 The Wet leaders..will wage a campaign for the election..of Congressmen favorable to changes in the Volstead Act. 1935A. G. Macdonell Visit to Amer. xiii. 229 The Volstead amendment led to some pretty confusion, but the repeal of the Volstead amendment seems to be almost worse. 1949Chicago Tribune 8 Sept. 22/2 In the Volstead era, corrupt politicians talked to exactly the same effect with the leaders of the Anti-Saloon league. 1977H. Fast Immigrants iii. 179 The Congress of the United States was overriding President Wilson's veto of the Volstead Act and making Prohibition the law of the land. Ibid. 203 This is the finest wine country in the world, and some day the world is going to discover that—if we ever rid ourselves of this lousy Volstead thing.
Hence ˈVolsteadism, the policy of the Volstead Act; prohibition.
1920Harvey's Weekly 27 Mar. 11/2 The Republicans would have to stand for Volsteadism or incur defeat. 1947Chicago Daily News 23 Jan. 14/1 Volstead didn't write the law. Nor was he an apostle of the fanaticism called ‘Volsteadism’. |