Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington, Dry Senator Borah of Idaho remarked: "Mr. Wickersham has at last succeeded in making it clear that he regards the law as unenforceable...
Clinton Norman Howard, Chairman of the National United Committee for Law Enforcement,* at a W. C. T. U. meeting at Round Lake, N. Y.: "The people will not let their constitution be wickershamed into a squatter sovereignty hodgepodge. . . . Maryland, Wisconsin and New York are where South Carolina was in the conflict against the abolition of slavery. . . . They are the copperhead and slacker states and are more culpable in time of peace than any slacker citizen in time...
...unofficial volunteer organization of drys not to be confused with the President's National Commission on Law Enforcement...
...Governors assembled in New London, Conn., bubbled with unusual excitement when Gov. Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York injected into it a letter on Prohibition which he had obtained from no less a personage than George Woodward Wickersham, chairman of President Hoover's National Commission on Law Enforcement and Observance...
...significance of this proposal lay in the fact that until then the Hoover Law Enforcement Commission had studiously avoided specific mention of Prohibition as a crime problem. How did Gov. Roosevelt get such a message? Was it meant for public use? Gov. Roosevelt explained that he had written to Mr. Wickersham, asked for some ideas. Responding in longhand from Bar Harbor, Me., Mr. Wickersham had explained: "I have no stenographer with me but I feel that your letter calls for the most helpful reply I can give and I hope that what I have written may suggest something of value...