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...Seymour Lowman, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of Customs, Coast Guard & Prohibition last week scoffed at these accusations, called Major Campbell "a weak character...
Carefully Mr. Mellon sat down in the witness chair, at his elbow Assistant Secretary Lowman, behind him Prohibition Commissioner James Maurice Doran. Before the Committee was the enforcement transfer bill written by Dry Representative William Williamson of Rapid City, S. Dak. (Coolidge 1927 summer resort), homesteader, rural editor, lawyer, title abstractor. Major issue of the transfer is: where to put industrial alcohol control? The Williamson bill weasles this question, provides for joint control by the Treasury and Justice Departments...
...discuss the proposed change, Canadian Minister Vincent Massey called upon Under Secretary of State Cotton and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lowman to hear their arguments. Only by a new international agreement, possibly a treaty, could the change be effected. Minister Massey explained to Messrs. Cotton and Lowman what appeared to be Canada's chief objection...
...leggers had learned how to "cook out" milder denaturants. What Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lowman called "a last resource" was the change in Formula 44-A: 100 gal. grain alcohol, 4 gal. wood alcohol (replacing 2 gal. gasoline), 10 gal. fusel oil or amyl alcohol. Chief Chemist William Vanarsdale Linder of the Prohibition Unit explained that alcohol thus denatured was only for the varnish and lacquer industry, not for the public...
...Loud demand by Senator Brookhart for removal not only of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, but also of his three prime Dry enforcers: Under Secretary of the Treasury Mills, Assistant Secretary Lowman, Prohibition Commissioner Doran...