Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dry Senator Thomas of Oklahoma: "Governor Smith, if elected President, could not have appointed anyone starting out to destroy Prohibition any more than the Hoover Commission chairman has done."
Dry Senator Caraway of Arkansas: "Prohibition suffered the worst blow by the Wickersham statement that it has ever received. ... I expect Wickersham to resign soon. . . . Personally I hope he resigns. . . . The usefulness of the Commission is destroyed if he remains at its head."
The Prohibition question was injected into the otherwise tranquil conference by a letter from Chairman George Woodward Wickersham of the National Law Enforcement Commission to Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York in which Mr. Wickersham proposed an enforcement scheme whereby the U. S. would deal with wholesale bootleggery, the...
* An unofficial volunteer organization of drys not to be confused with the President's National Commission on Law Enforcement.
Born in Somersworth, N. H., Author Chase, specializing in economics and statistics, took a Bachelor of Science degree cum laude from Harvard in 1910. A Certified Public Accountant in 1916, he next year joined the Federal Trade Commission, was sent to Chicago to investigate Armour & Co. Working with the U...