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The Fort Worth location’s top menu items are the fish-and-chips and the Santa Fe fried fish tacos, along with grilled or blackened platters, he said. The restaurant is open daily for lunch and ...
Andrew John Volstead (/ ˈ v ɒ l s t ɛ d /) (October 31, 1859 – January 20, 1947) was an American member of the United States House of Representatives from Minnesota, 1903–1923, and a member of the Republican Party. His name is closely associated with the National Prohibition Act of 1919, usually called the Volstead Act.
The Andrew John Volstead House is the historic house in Granite Falls, Minnesota, of ten-term United States Congressman Andrew Volstead (1860–1947). It is now managed as a museum and the organizational headquarters of the Granite Falls Historical Society. [ 4 ]
The Volstead Act had a number of contributing factors that led to its ratification in 1919. For example, the formation of the Anti-Saloon League in 1893. [ 9 ] The league used the after effects of World War I to push for national prohibition because there was a lot of prejudice and suspicion of foreigners following the war.
Capper–Volstead Act (P.L. 67-146), the Co-operative Marketing Associations Act (7 U.S.C. 291, 292) was adopted by the United States Congress on February 18, 1922. It gave “associations” of persons producing agricultural products certain exemptions from antitrust laws. It is sometimes called the Magna Carta of cooperatives. [1]
The house was designed by the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright and built for the architect's fourth son David, along with David's wife Gladys. [2] It is located at 5212 East Exeter Boulevard, [3] [4] with an alternate address of 405 North Rubicon Avenue, [1] in the Arcadia neighborhood of Phoenix, Arizona, United States. [5]
The original site of the Scott House was sold for commercial development in 1972, and the house was subsequently moved six miles to a residential subdivision where it is now located. The property was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on July 8, 1982, reference #82002079.
In the late 1800s the area that is now Glendale was all desert. William John Murphy, a native of New Hartford, New York, who resided in the town of Flagstaff in what was then the territory of Arizona, was in charge of building the 40-mile-long (64 km) Arizona Canal from Granite Reef to New River for the Arizona Canal Company.