To define the language used in the Amendment, Congress enacted enabling legislation called the National Prohibition Act, better known as the Volstead Act, on October 28, 1919.

* The Republican Citizens Committee Against National Prohibition is established for the repeal of prohibition in the U. S.

* The Prohibition National Committee is formed in the United States.

Between the wars, American exponents of the sterling example set to Britain by National Prohibition, such as William " Pussyfoot " Johnson and Dr Armor, toured the country, to be met with derision, and in Johnson's case, violence.

Energized by the anti-German sentiment during World War I, the League achieved its main goal of passage on December 18, 1917 — the 18th Amendment that established National Prohibition, consequently banning " the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States and its possessions.

Irving pleaded guilty to the charge of " trivialising, grossly playing down and denying the Holocaust " and was sentenced to three years ' imprisonment in accordance with the law prohibiting National Socialist activities ( officially Verbotsgesetz, " Prohibition Statute ").

* Sloan was a member of The Crusaders, an organization that promoted the repeal of National Prohibition of alcohol in the US.

Among his productions are The Civil War ( 1990 ), Baseball ( 1994 ), Jazz ( 2001 ), The War ( 2007 ), The National Parks: America's Best Idea ( 2009 ) and Prohibition ( 2011 ).

* John Russell ( U. S. politician ), first National Committee Chairman of the Prohibition Party

National Prohibition ended in 1933, although it continued for a while in some states.

National Prohibition Convention, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1892.

The Prohibition Party experienced a schism in 2003, as the party's prior presidential candidate, Earl Dodge, incorporated a rival party called the National Prohibition Party in Colorado.

Apartheid laws passed by the National Party after 1948 included the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, the Immorality Act, The Population Registration Act, and the Group Areas Act, which prohibited nonwhite males from being in certain areas of the country ( especially at night ) unless they were employed there.

National Prohibition forced them to shut down altogether.

Even after the war, Crowell remained politically powerful, and was later instrumental in engineering the repeal of National Prohibition.

On 13 October 2004, Adalah, an organization and legal center for Arab minority rights in Israel, submitted a petition to the Supreme Court entitled Challenging the Prohibition on Arab Citizens of Israel from Living on Jewish National Fund Land.

National Prohibition became the law of the land with the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment and the enabling legislation for it, the Volstead Act.

He was appointed Chairman of the Prohibition Party in 1979 while the party was operating under the name of the National Statesmen Party ; the party name was re-instated following the 1980 election.

* 2004-President of the United States-Candidate in his new secessionist National Prohibition Party-140 votes

Amondson was nominated for President at the 2008 Prohibition Party National Convention in Indianapolis ; about 10 to 15 people attended the event.

* Pauline Sabin ( 1887 – 1955 ), American founder of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform

The Bureau of Prohibition ( or Prohibition Unit ) was the federal law enforcement agency formed to enforce the National Prohibition Act of 1919, commonly known as the Volstead Act, which backed up the 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution regarding the prohibition of the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages.

The year 1961 marks the fourteenth anniversary of the unification of our Armed Forces under the National Security Act of 1947.

Similar restrictions on the strength of the Army National Guard contained in the 1960 Department of Defense Appropriation Act should likewise be dropped.

The latest major change in this program was introduced by the National Defense Education Act of 1958, Title 8, of which amended the George-Barden Act.

For the Smith-Hughes, George-Barden, and National Defense Act of 1958, the cumulative total of Federal expenditures in 42 years was only about $740 million.

The Title 8, program of the National Defense Education Act of 1958 was a great spur to this trend toward area schools.

What could rescue the bill would be some quick progress on a bill amending the National Defense Education Act of 1958.

The acceptance of collective bargaining as a national policy in 1934, implicit in the writing of Section 7A of the National Industrial Recovery Act, has made it impolitic to oppose collective bargaining in principle.

The American Film Institute ( AFI ) is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act.

* 1949 – U. S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act Amendment, streamlining the defense agencies of the United States government, and replacing the Department of War with the United States Department of Defense.

This Act established a 18-year assessment and research program under the direction of the National Acidic Precipitation Assessment Program ( NAPAP ).

Following the 1852 Telegraph Act, Canada's first permanent transatlantic telegraph link was a submarine cable built in 1866 between Ireland and Newfoundland. Telegrams were sent through networks built by Canadian Pacific and Canadian National.

In 1911 he took up a government job as an " official explainer ", touring the country to explain David Lloyd George's National Insurance Act.

Among the most important pieces of legislation was the National Insurance Act 1946, in which people in work paid a flat rate of national insurance.

* National Health Service Act 1946

* National Insurance Act 1946

* National Insurance ( Industrial Injuries ) Act 1946

* National Assistance Act 1948

* National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949

Firearms with shoulder stocks and barrels less than 406 mm ( 16 in ) in length are classified as " short barreled rifles " ( under the US National Firearms Act or NFA ), and are sometimes restricted in the same way that short barrel shotguns and machine guns are.

A list of firearms not covered by the NFA due to their antique status may be found here or due to their Curio and Relic status may be found here ; these lists includes a number of carbines with barrels less than the minimum legal length and firearms that are " primarily collector's items and are not likely to be used as weapons and, therefore, are excluded from the provisions of the National Firearms Act.

These are a popular compromise for ( American ) shooters who would like to own a submachine gun but cannot due to local restrictions or the prohibitive cost of buying a civilian legal submachine gun ( full automatics or semi-automatics with barrels shorter than are restricted under Title II of the National Firearms Act ).

While the original Sterling semi-auto would be classed a " short barrel rifle " under the U. S. National Firearms Act, fully legal long-barrel versions of the Sterling have been made for the U. S. collector market.

Congress included text in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994 ( passed in 1993 ) requiring the military to abide by regulations essentially identical to the 1982 absolute ban policy.