Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House last week went men great in the law. They took to President Hoover their knowledge, experience and advice for his law enforcement investigation. A trained engineer about to sink a new shaft in quest of buried facts, the President plotted his operation cautiously. Six or nine worthy men had first to be found, men without passion or prejudice on prohibition. Their descent must be well charted-where to break ground, how far down to go, what machinery to use to bring up the ugly ore of crime...
...face. Into three decades Dean Hutchins has packed much successful living. On the Italian front he won a Croce di Guerra for U. S. ambulance driving. A Yale graduate of 1921, he captained the debating team, was class orator, achieved prominence without athletics. Two years later while a Yale Law School student he was chosen secretary of the University. His LL.B. came magna cum laude in 1925. In 1927 he was made Dean of the Yale Law School...
...sending them forth on missions of nobility. An influence at New Haven where he is in close contact not only with the student body but also with returning-and "reuning"-alumni, Dean Hutchins may find himself a Hoover missionary spreading the gospel of abstinence among college men. The Yale Law School has been conducting a survey of court administration. Dean Hutchins, with Prof. Charles E. Clark, told the President of this work. If asked, he could have given President Hoover an illuminating account of the college attitude toward prohibition...
...Silas Hardy Strawn of Chicago, onetime (1927-28) President of the American Bar Association and a conspicuous member of Chicago's Crime Commission, warned Mr. Hoover against commissioning professional prohibitors to make investigations. Said Mr. Strawn: "Prohibition . . . cannot be enforced by making more drastic laws such as the Jones Act. The opinion of the American people must support the law. . . . How this can be brought about is hard to say." Last and most august came Chief Justice Taft, to discuss with President Hoover the U. S. Courts and their relation to the problem of law enforcement. Long...
Last year William Larsen, a Department of Justice secret agent, changed his name, on orders from Washington, to Peter Hansen. As Hansen, he secured, in an as-yet-unexplained manner, papers from the U. S. District Court in Detroit, Mich., committing him to the Atlanta Penitentiary for a liquor law violation which he had not committed. Warden John W. Snook received him as any other prisoner...