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Last summer Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Seymour Lowman embargoed Russian pulpwood on the ground that it was produced by convict labor. Within a week he was forced to lift the ban for lack of evidence that pulpwood workers of U. S. S. R. were legal convicts (TIME...
Engagement Broken. Katherine Lowman, daughter of Assistant Secretary Seymour Lowman of the U. S. Treasury; and William N. Jardine, son of U. S. Minister to Egypt William M. Jardine...
...charges that Washington influence had hindered his enforcement work (TIME, July 14). Last week he began publishing in the New York World (reputed to have paid him $10,000) a series of articles amplifying those accusations. Photostatic copies of letters sent him by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Seymour Lowman, onetime Prohibition Bureau Director James Maurice Doran (now Director of Industrial Alcohol), and Acting Prohibition Commissioner Alf Oftedal illustrated his text. Most important among those accused of hindering the Administrator: Charles Curtis, Vice President...
...article, the Vice President last week said: "I was greatly amazed. ... I have never used my influence either directly or indirectly to have such a permit issued and, if my name was used by any one, it was done without my knowledge or consent." Remained, however, the Lowman letters specifically mentioning direct pressure by Mr. Curtis, the Senator...
...More men. More money. Cooperation from State enforcement agencies." That was long the refrain of Assistant-Secretary-of-the-Treasury-in-charge-of-Prohibition Seymour Lowman, and his Prohibition Bureau director, James Maurice Doran. This year enforcement was taken out of their hands, transferred to the Department of Justice (TIME, July 7). Last week Assistant-Attorney-General-in-charge-of-Prohibition Gustaf Aaron Youngquist made a radio-network speech and his Prohibition Bureau director, Amos Walter Wright Woodcock made a statement. Speech and statement amounted to: "More men. More money. Co-operation from State enforcement agencies...