United States. National Prohibition Act
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National Prohibition Act
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United States. Act to Prohibit Intoxicating Beverages, and to Regulate the Manufacture, Production, Use, and Sale of High-Proof Spirits for Other Than Beverage Purposes, and to Insure an Ample Supply of Alcohol and Promote Its Use in Scientific Research and in the Development of Fuel, Dye, and Other Lawful Industries
United States. Volstead Act
United States. P.L. 66-66
United States. Public Law 66-66
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found: Its An Act to Prohibit Intoxicating Beverages, and to Regulate the Manufacture, Production, Use, and Sale of High-Proof Spirits for Other Than Beverage Purposes, and to Insure an Ample Supply of Alcohol and Promote Its Use in Scientific Research and in the Development of Fuel, Dye, and Other Lawful Industries, 1919:t.p. (Public--No. 66--66th Congress; H.R. 6810; short title of this Act shall be the "National Prohibition Act") p. 21 (enacted Oct. 28, 1919)
found: Ency. Britannica(Volstead Act (1919): U.S. law enacted to provide enforcement for the Eighteenth Amendment, prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages; s.v. Prohibition: Volstead Act was enacted Oct. 28, 1919)
found: Major acts of Congress, 2004volume 3, page 45 (National Prohibition Act (P.L. 66-66. 41 Stat. 305), also known as the Volstead Act, was adopted by Congress to implement the recently ratified Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.) page 48 (President Wilson vetoed the National Prohibition Act. By a vote of 175 to 55 in the House on October 27, 1919, and 65 to 20 in the Senate the following day, Congress overrode the presidential veto. The Volstead Act took effect immediately, even before the Eighteenth Amendment went into force on January 17, 1920) page 50 (On December 5, 1933, the Twenty-first Amendment was ratified, finishing the dismantling of the National Prohibition Act)
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