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...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...
Embargo On. Fortnight ago Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Seymour Lowman, once in charge of Prohibition enforcement, now of Customs, precipitately slapped a tariff embargo on Russian pulpwood, imported chiefly by International Paper Co. through Amtorg Trading Corp. from Archangel (TIME, August 4). His authority: Section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930 which prohibits importation of "all goods, wares, articles and merchandise mined, produced or manufactured wholly or in part in any foreign country by convict labor." His reason: secret evidence that Soviet political prisoners were logging the forests of North Russia. Pressed for details, he would only...
...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...
Harvard President Karl Taylor Compton of M. I. T. LL.D. Seymour Parker Gilbert, onetime Agent General for Reparations LL.D. Frederick Perry Fish, patent lawyer, onetime (1901-07) President of American Bell Telephone Co. and American Telephone & Telegraph Co. LL.D. Orville Wright, pioneer aviator LL.D...
While U. S. businessmen talked at Paris of a "new epoch" (see p. 44) in Berlin best business minds bent over the farewell report of Seymour Parker Gilbert who recently ceased to be Agent General of Reparations when the duties of that office partly lapsed and were partly merged into the Bank for International Settlements (TIME, May 26). Mr. Gilbert courteously waited until $345,000,000 of Young Plan bonds secured by Germany's promise to pay were successfully floated. Then he released a 350-page report in which more than 100 pages are devoted to flaying the German...