Talk:Volstead Act

message: Hi Wham-  Please note that the material in bold is from “Temperance Movement Groups and Leaders in the U.S.” With every word of this entry being from that page, it is clearly sourced from it and indicating so is not spam. To the contrary it is proper documentation. Thanks. David Justin 01:18, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Source

message: I removed the link to National Prohibition Act, since it just redirects here.  Would it be better for this article's text to be in that location itself, with Volstead Act redirecting there, since the National Prohibition Act was apparently the official name?
Bassington 21:20, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Circular Link

message: Unless the Volstead act is responsible for Utah's restriction on beer with more than 3.2% ABW, I don't think it belongs here.
Removed text:
An interesting sidenote: Utah still prohibits the sale of beer with greater than a 3.2% alcohol content.  We affectionately refer to it as "Utah Beer" and often drive to Colorado to buy "Real Beer", which we consume in that state.  Transporting "Real Beer" into the state of Utah is still considered "Bootlegging".
Perhaps this should (once rewritten in a more encyclopedic tone) go under Prohibition or Utah? --Benjamin Geiger 18:41, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Unrelated information.

message: A paragraph near the end of the article began 'In 1968, with the passage of the Gun Control Act, the agency changed its name again, this time to the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of the IRS and first began to be referred to by the initials "ATF."'. This was the first reference to 'the agency' (though the previous paragraph introduces the Federal Alcohol Administration) and the first reference to anything 'changing its name'. 
I presume that this paragraph was left behind by successive edits, and have changed it to 'In 1968, with the passage of the Gun Control Act, the FAA became the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of the IRS and began to be referred to by the initials "ATF."'. I'm guessing that the 'again' which I have expunged indicates that the agency had other names in between, but not knowing anything about the subject, I thought I would ask here if there was information which should be added to Federal Alcohol Administration? --ColinFine (talk) 07:16, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: The Agency

message: Would anyone have info on what happened to sentenced violators of the Volstead Act after its repeal? Were those still serving a sentence exonerated? Were convictions expunged?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aforementioned (talk • contribs) 00:39, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: What happened to violators after repeal?

message: There seems to be a contradiction in the 'procedure' section of this article. Specifically, the page reads "it did not define "intoxicating liquors", and two paragraphs on it states "The act defined intoxicating liquor as any beverage containing more than 0.5% alcohol by volume".  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.189.144.67 (talk) 01:41, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradiction 

message: Should the article discuss how Wilson and FDR used presidential pardons to 100s for alcohol convictions.  The Atlantic summarized alcohol clemency in a July article.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Timetraveler3.14 (talk • contribs) 05:44, 15 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  President's Opposition and Response - Celmency 

message: (I am new to Wiki so excuse any errors in my work) I had wanted to add information as to women's view of prohibition during the time by using the following sources...
 
https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/volstead-act
http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?id=347 
https://daily.jstor.org/feminist-history-prohibition/
Sierrawiley2 (talk) 19:39, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Women's View on Prohibition

message: That is wrong.  The intent was to make liquor sales illegal.  This act perverted the intent to make all (or most) alcohol illegal.  This is a good example of progressivism.  Shouldn’t that be noted in the article. Solri89 (talk) 16:14, 25 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Find a reliable source for this and maybe. Britmax (talk) 17:18, 25 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  First line says “enact the intent” 

message: In the summary information section, "Valentine Act" is listed as another nickname, however no attribution is given, and it is not mentioned elsewhere in the text, and I have not found any other reference to this name online. Can anyone back this up?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.102.97.26 (talk) 09:46, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Valentine Act? 

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