Word: lowman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Artery Inspection. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Seymour Lowman and Prohibition Commissioner James M. Doran visited Detroit a few hours after the Smith rally, riding up & down the waterfront on inspection. Said Mr. Lowman...
...tariff imbroglio of France and the U. S. (see p. 18), during which the U. S. Department of State had been at pains to explain that the U. S. tariff policy is not discriminatory, newsgatherers naturally went scurrying to the Department of the Treasury to see whether Assistant Secretary Lowman would accompany his order with a press statement...
...affair might have passed off quietly had not the New York Herald Tribune quoted Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lowman as follows: "The American (tariff) policy is one of reciprocity. That's our policy: they go up, we go up. They go down, we go down...
...minded beyond his years (26) and is in training for a political career of his own. Personal interest was doubtless mixed with professional curiosity when Grandson Lodge pressed his inquiry and found 1) that the Department of State had not been consulted prior to the issuance of Assistant Secretary Lowman's order, 2) that Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon had not reviewed the order, as perfunctorily stated in it, and 3) that Department of State officials were "surprised" by Mr. Lowman's order and "astounded" by his alleged "reciprocity" statement...
Next day brought suppressed fireworks. Secretary Mellon, of course, endorsed his subordinate's order and firmly pronounced it a matter in which the Department of the Treasury had no discretionary power. But this endorsement did not come until after Mr. Mellon had summoned Mr. Lowman to his office first thing in the morning and asked him about the "reciprocity" statement. Mr. Lowman announced that he had never made so stupid a mistake and said he would never presume to enunciate a Government policy. So, while the Department of State fumed with embarrassment and Frenchmen scowled in perplexity, the matter...