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...Washington. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Seymour Lowman, in charge of Prohibition enforcement, asserted that both killings were justified and justifiable. He stoutly promised that the U. S. would stand behind Patrolman White, would transfer his murder case from the Minnesota courts to the U. S. court. He asserted that the newspaper accounts of the Virkula killing were "highly colored, to put it mildly," a statement denounced as "absolutely false" by the Minnesota authorities at International Falls. He rejected the suggestion that the Treasury disarm its border patrolmen, "which in effect would amount to a repeal of the Tariff...
...next morning Manhattan's papers exulted: "Count de Polignac and 32 Seized Here as Liquor Ring." First developments: the Count was released on $25,000 bail. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Seymour Lowman said: ''We have been trying to get him for a long time. He has been suspected of participating in a bootleg ring that has brought large quantities of liquor into the country." The Count de Polignac is in charge of foreign agents for the French champagne firm Pommery & Greno of which the Marquis Melchior de Polignac, the Count's first cousin, is president...
...July 9). Last week, 45 more of the district's 20,000-odd nightclubs and speakeasies were proceeded against. Also, last week, the persons made defendants by the first raids were indicted. The Federal activity began to spread to roadhouses in New York's wet suburbs. Seymour Lowman, Acting Secretary of the Treasury,* said the work in the New York area had "only just started." It was again denied that the raids were timed for political effect...
...Confirmed the appointments of Seymour Lowman of Elmira, N. Y., as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and of Governor John E. Martineau of Arkansas, to be a Federal District Judge...
...Conventions. Prohibition Commissioner James M. Doran and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Seymour Lowman gave out a portentous announcement: "The conventions shall be Dry!" That is, undercover agents, already at work, will try to intimidate such liquor operators as have not already gotten their shipments through to Houston and Kansas City from Mexico, Cuba, Canada. Naturally enough, the Houston convention will receive the most attention, not solely because it is Democratic but because it is so near a border and because Texas has always out-thirsted Kansas. It is not likely, however, that the persons, baggage or hotel rooms...