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From The Hague to Wilson to Hitler, 1912

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  Yes there was a Crash and Depression in 1921 just as in 1914 when the Harrison Act, Income Tax and WW1 obtruded upon the nation's notice, and in 1907 when prohibition mania went viral. President Woodrow Wilson , himself a temperance man, vetoed the Volstead Act instituting fines, imprisonments, asset-forfeiture confiscations, padlocking and gunplay with live ammo in the War against Beer and the Demon Rum. Congress, by then a nest of Republican National Socialist and Progressive politicians, overrode the veto. The Senate proceeded to step on Wilson's beloved Treaty of Versailles and Charter of the League of Nations--both of which delegated substance prohibition powers to the League in their Articles 23. Senator Lodge wisely wrote: ( link ) 4. The United States reserves to itself exclusively the right to decide what questions are within its domestic jurisdiction and declares that all domestic and political questions relating wholly or in part to its internal affairs, including ...