Word: unit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same day. Both aimed to allay the almost universally acknowledged super-Nation in the enforcement of its prohibition law. One, the Conference of Senior Circuit Judges, of which Chief Justice Taft is Chairman, petitioned Attorney General Stone to recommend, in his report to Congress, that the Prohibition Unit be transferred from the Bureau of Internal Revenue of the Treasury Department to the Department of Justice. The other, the Anti-Saloon League, urged the President to expedite the passage of the Cramton Bill, which would set up the Unit as an independent branch of the Treasury Department...
...Unit. The place of the Unit is more or less of an anachronism. In earlier days, the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages was legal, but subject to a tax. The Bureau of Internal Revenue, under the Treasury Department, collected the tax. From time almost immemorial, the mountaineers of the East and South attempted to evade this levy. Revenue agents from the Bureau were accordingly sent to apprehend the evaders...
...later, the legal limit was reduced to .5%. The Bureau of Internal Revenue still undertook the business of enforcement. There was no longer any revenue to be derived from a tax on alcoholic beverages, but the Bureau handled the taxes and regulations on alcohol for industrial uses. A special unit was then set up by the Bureau to undertake the increased labor of enforcing the .5% restriction...
...This Unit is the present prohibition enforcement agency. It is within the Bureau of Internal Revenue, which is, in turn, within the Treasury Department. The Prohibition Commissioner is subordinate to the Collector of Internal Revenue, who is, in turn, subordinate to the Secretary of the Treasury...
...Judiciary Proposal. The Conference of Senior Circuit Judges asked that the Prohibition Unit, which is now, strictly speaking, a law-enforcing rather than a revenue-collecting agency, be lifted out of the Treasury Department and placed in the Department of Justice...