Ramsey County History – Spring/Summer 1975: “Volstead and Prohibition: A Roaring ’20’s Memoir”

Volstead and Prohibition: A Roaring ’20’s Memoir                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Author: Helen Warren Pfleger as told to George A. Rea

The author worked as a receptionist in the Federal Prohibition Administration office in downtown St. Paul in the 1920s. There she came to know Andrew Volstead, the former Congressman who had drafted the Prohibition amendment to the Constitution, and also to witness the daily workings of Prohibition enforcement. She found Mr. Volstead “a dignified gentleman, quiet and unassuming, but most affable,” old, short, and slight. The author also recalls other jobs she held and the popular entertainments of the time.
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