Word: transferring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Drys, Consolidated, last week nominated the "Personification of Prohibition,"* Mrs. Mabel Elizabeth Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney General, to take charge of enforcement following its projected transfer from the Treasury to the Department of Justice. The Christian Herald opened her campaign under the caption: "TO DRY UP AMERICA: MABEL WALKER WILLEBRANDT." Dr. Daniel A. Poling, the Christian Herald's editor, declared that "every prohibitionist in the U. S. . . . will experience disappointment and regret" if this "remarkable woman" is allowed to retire. He called her "the first figure in the whole field of law observance and law enforcement...
...Transfer, from the Treasury to the Department of Justice, of Federal enforcement. As old as the Volstead Act is the question of which department should enforce prohibition. It went to the Treasury because that department had long collected liquor taxes. Under Harding no good prohibitor would trust the task to Harry Micajah Daugherty's Department of Justice. President Hoover now favors the change, and his rejection of his close friend William J. Donovan as Attorney-General seemed prompted, aside from alleged politico-religious considerations,* by his desire to entrust future enforcement in the Department of Justice to a personal...
...institute to absorb all the functions of the present Agent General of Reparations, Seymour Parker Gilbert, and of the Reparations Commission and the transfer committee...
...before with some frequency; but only five or six were present at these, in contrast with the startling number at this recent event. The proctors, although they were quite willing to give permission, admitted surprise and joined with others in wondering if this is to be precedent for the transfer to Cambridge of the famous Back Bay quantity production tradition...
...figure. His squinting eyes turned ceaselessly, his nostrils twitched. He was Emile Zola, novelist. He had persuaded Ludovic Halevy, boulevardier & librettist, to bring him there. The Prince stared at the bosom and hips of his hostess. Emile Zola stared also, fixed her image in his mind. Later he would transfer it into words. That night the Prince escorted the actress from the theatre. But Zola returned to the portfolio of notes for his next novel, Nana, a saga of sensuality...