Word: transferred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since its inauguration, ten years ago last week. The Commission's report had furnished substantial grist for the legislative mill. Of its recommendations the most important (the Commission gave it No. 1 place), the most likely to become law at this session of Congress, was that for the transfer of the Government's dry enforcement arm from the Treasury Department to the Department of Justice. Such a transfer, as all the world knew, would make Attorney General William DeWitt Mitchell, instead of Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon, U. S. Dry Enforcer-in-Chief...
...purpose a bill was last week offered in the House by Representative William Williamson, chairman of the Committee on Executive Expenditures. In the Senate Chairman Norris of the Judiciary Committee promised "early and careful" consideration of the question. The U. S. Drys, Consolidated, generally applauded the prospect of the transfer and most of their friends in Congress promised action...
...dismissing the lax, appointing only those who will press the Volstead Act up to the hilt. From his own Minnesota he called into service Gustav Aaron Youngquist as Assistant Attorney General in charge of Prohibition & Taxation, successor to Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt (TIME, Nov. 11). If and when the transfer occurs, Mr. Youngquist will probably take over the enforcement as well as the prosecution of Prohibition. Attorney General Mitchell has personally appealed to the Supreme Court the famed Norris liquor case in the hope of aiding enforcement by sustaining a conspiracy charge against the purchaser as well as the seller...
Absence of Transfer Clause...
...About 700 million gold marks, that is about one-third of the annual payments for the first 37 years, are 'unprotected' by any transfer clause. Germany must make the payments no matter what the state of her foreign exchange may be. These payments are to be "mobilized", that is they are to be transformed into a bond issue which is to be sold to private individuals in all countries. Once in private hands, it will be impossible to scale them down in the future. The other two-thirds are given some 'protection' in the shape of a limited moratorium...