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unusual facts about Capper–Volstead Act


Capper–Volstead Act

Senator Arthur Capper was a member of this bloc and the Capper–Volstead Act was a part of the farm legislative program.


British Army Aeroplane No 1

In addition some highly secret experiments with gliders were being carried out at Blair Atholl in Scotland by J.W. Dunne in collaboration with Capper.

In late 1907 the Director of Fortifications, Capper's immediate superior, was persuaded to allow the use of some of the Balloon Factory's resources for the construction of a powered aircraft, to be designed and built by the American Samuel Franklin Cody, who was at that time working with Capper on the Nulli Secundus.

Estill Springs, Tennessee

During the time of Prohibition, Estill Springs was home to prominent local mobster and bootlegger Parker Jones.

Gold Coast University Hospital

However, on Opening day, ABC News reporter Stephanie Capper made no comments that the $1.76 billion hospital had any facilities or fittings cut back.

Happy hour

When the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act were passed banning alcohol consumption, people would host "cocktail hours", also known as "happy hours", at a speakeasy (an illegal drinking establishment) before eating at restaurants where alcohol could not be served.

Louis Ginzberg

The subsequent Volstead Act defined "intoxicating liquors" and provided for several exceptions, one of which as for sacramental use.

New Beer's Eve

The beer had to have an alcohol content less than 3.2% (4% ABV), compared to the 0.5% limit of the Volstead Act, because 3.2% was considered too low to produce intoxication.

Nicholas M. Pette

He was a U.S. Commissioner (i.e. a federal magistrate appointed by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York to help with the enforcement of the Volstead Act) until 1931; and a judge of the Queens Municipal Court from 1932 to 1950.

Peter P. Walsh

In 1928 a grand jury indicted Chief Walsh and some of his command staff for conspiracy to violate the Volstead Act.

Richard Enright

During the early years of Prohibition, the police force came under fire for widespread corruption and its ineffectiveness in the enforcement of the Volstead Act and the rising violence from the "Bootleg Wars".


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