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	Corkscrew turns historic tale Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 5/25/1986; ; 700+ words ; ...wretched wine. At least one corkscrew and bottle opener is shaped to suggest the stern look of Prohibitionist Andrew Joseph Volstead. The popularity of these instruments gave rise to the select, 50-member International Correspondence of Corkscrew...
	Corkscrew turns many a historic tale Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 5/11/1986; ; 700+ words ; ...wretched wine. At least one corkscrew and bottle opener is shaped to suggest the stern look of Prohibitionist Andrew Joseph Volstead. The popularity of these instruments gave rise to the select, 50-member International Correspondence of Corkscrew...
	Made in MINNESOTA; FOOD HISTORY MILESTONES: 1865 TO 2001.(TASTE) Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 4/26/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...Co. and later General Mills. 1868: Joseph R. Watkins begins the J.R. Watkins...ratified. Its enforcement provision, the Volstead Act, is drafted by Minnesota Congressman Andrew J. Volstead, a Republican from Granite Falls. 1919...

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	Andrew Joseph Volstead Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Andrew Joseph Volstead , 1860-1947, American legislator, b. Goodhue co., Minn. A lawyer...measures in Congress and became a national figure as the author of the Volstead Act. Officially the National Prohibition Act of 1919, the federal...
	Volstead Act Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Volstead Act see under Volstead, Andrew Joseph .
	organized crime Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...the prohibition era of the early 20th cent. The efforts of federal officials to enforce the unpopular Volstead Act (see Volstead, Andrew Joseph ) of 1920 generated the growth of highly organized bootlegging rings with nationwide and international...

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