Volstead
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She wasn’t alone; the same day, San Antonio-based cumbia singer Vanita Leo, 22, wowed the crowd at Austin’s Volstead Lounge with an impassioned performance of “Si Una Vez.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2025
To prevent this, the Volstead Act held dominion not only over the land but also encroached on the kingdom of Neptune, prohibiting the consumption of alcohol up to 12 miles out to sea.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 30, 2022
Shortly thereafter, Congress passed the Volstead Act, translating the Eighteenth Amendment into an enforceable ban on the consumption of alcoholic beverages, and regulating the scientific and industrial uses of alcohol.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
The Volstead Prohibition Act, passed in 1919, mandated that “no person shall manufacture, sell, barter, transport, import, export, deliver, furnish or possess any intoxicating liquor.”
From Salon • May 19, 2013
To enforce the Eighteenth Amendment, the Volstead Act—named for the congressman who introduced it—was passed on October 28, 1919.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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