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...Hoover, 41 years White House usher (whose "consideration of others is unfailing"). Other nominees: Novelist Benjamin Kittredge; Artist Olin Dows soft-drawling Lawyer Frank Lyon Polk, Wilsonian Undersecretary of State; Lawyer George Woodward Wickersham; Justice Harlan Fiske Stone; Actor George Arliss...
Wickershambles. Once in the White House President Hoover shuffled off the whole liquor question to the Wickersham Commission where it was diffused and submerged with other matters. When a 6-to-5 majority of the Commission reported Wet, he set aside their findings, declared against repeal of the 18th Amendment and appeared to the country Dryer than ever. For once the whisperings of his office staff that his mind was still "open" failed to convince. Rather it became understood that the President was impressed with some advice from Calvin Coolidge: that Herbert Hoover had back of him only one remaining...
...Resident Commissioner Osias of the Philippines and Delegate Wickersham of Alaska following the Congressional practice...
Martin Victor, C. F. Vilter, H. S. Voegtlin, E. C. Walsh, Robert Warner, S. L. Washburn, J. S. Weld, G. W. Wickersham, F. L. Wiegand, C. W. Williams, Arthur Willis, J. D. Woodberry...
...Mooney case which was once carried to the U. S. Supreme Court. President Wilson's personal intervention secured a commutation of Mooney's death sentence to life imprisonment. Three Federal investigations of the Mooney case were made, the last being by a subcommittee of the defunct Wickersham Commission...