Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Assistant Secretary Lowman, behind him Prohibition Commissioner James Maurice Doran. Before the Committee was the enforcement transfer bill written by Dry Representative William Williamson of Rapid City, S. Dak. (Coolidge 1927 summer resort), homesteader, rural editor, lawyer, title abstractor. Major issue of the transfer is: where to put industrial alcohol control? The Williamson bill weasles this question, provides for joint control by the Treasury and Justice Departments...
...Placing Prohibition enforcement in the [Treasury's] Bureau of Internal Revenue was an illogical choice. . . . Prohibition is unrelated to the duties of the Treasury Department. . . . There is no reason why the Treasury should issue permits for the manufacture of industrial alcohol. It is equally clear that these duties do not fall within the jurisdiction of the Department of Justice. . . . [But] since they are now being performed by the Treasury, there is no adequate reason for removing them, unless it can be shown that they logically belong elsewhere. . . . I recommend the enactment of the proposed legislation...
Assistant Attorney General Youngquist in charge of Prohibition was unable to tell why responsibility for alcohol permits was to be divided between the Justice and Treasury departments. Attorney General Mitchell appeared, blanketed the Williamson Bill with his approval, opposed administration by his department of industrial alcohol, promised lawful law enforcement. From another source he made known that under him no more wires would be tapped to secure evidence, even though the Supreme Court had sanctioned this practice. Declared the Justice Department's Chief Inspector J. Edgar Hoover...
...Prohibition Commissioner Doran sent a chill through his audience when he declared: "If under the lash of extremists, harsh and restrictive measures are adopted toward scientific and industrial groups [using alcohol], we will witness a terrific blow to scientific and commercial progress. . . . The crippling of our institutions, our medical arts and our commercial organizations . . . is too big a price to pay for this extreme brand of Prohibition...
...Prohibition, declared the government's policy had "driven liquor from the bar to the boudoir, from the saloon to the salon, from hops to hips, from keg to kitchen." New York's Representative Sirovich, a physician, gave the House his annual demonstration of the effects of wood alcohol and other governmental denaturants on the human system. Members squirmed at his account of fatty degeneration of the liver. After three hours of riotous debate, the House refused to change the Treasury's methods of denaturing industrial alcohol, or to vote $300,000,000 for Dry enforcement. It allowed...