Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Great Commission
The eleven eminent citizens whom President Hoover has constituted a commission to inquire into the law-breaking habits of their fellows, and into the nature of the laws which they break, and into the causes and circumstances of the breakage, headed last week for Washington to receive their instructions. George...
By inaugural-time, President Hoover had expanded the commission-in-investigation idea far beyond the limits of Prohibition. He proposed then to go into the "entire question of law enforcement and organized justice." He tried to subordinate Prohibition in the inquiry, to make it only one of many elements to...
Public opinion did not follow the President's line of thought. When the commissioners were announced last fortnight, all alert newspaper editors were quick to weigh them in Wet-and-Dry scales. Great were the stirrings among U. S. Drys, Consolidated, and U. S. Wets, Limited, to assemble debatable material to put before the commission. The President's legalistic examiners were lightly spoken of at Washington dinner tables as "highbrow highball homilecticians...
The U. S. Drys, Consolidated, particularly the Anti-Saloon League and the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals, were carefully watched to see if the President's broadening of the commission's scope would cause them to protest that their special handi work was not receiving its proper share...