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...Baker had many a point in his favor. While declining to make Prohibition a national issue, he is on record in an individual report filed with the Wickersham Commission favoring remission of the liquor question to the States. Back of him lies the electoral strength of Ohio, a "pivotal" State. Businessmen could be reminded that he is a prominent lawyer in Cleveland, a director of Baltimore & Ohio R. R. Liberals could be told that as Mayor of Cleveland (1912-16) he carried forward the Reform torch fallen from the hands of the late Tom Johnson, famed tribune of the people...
...Received from Attorney General Mitchell a report made by a subcommittee of the Wickersham Commission on the Mooney-Billings case. Its conclusions: 1) "There was never any scientific attempt made either by the police or prosecution to discover the perpetrators of the crime"; 2) "there were flagrant violations of the statutory law of California by both police and prosecution"; 3) "witnesses were coached ... to a degree that approached subornation of perjury...
...what about Prohibition? [Here Mr. Smith took an ostentatious stoup of water while his audience whooped.] null actually spending $100,000,000 a year in a senseless, useless, fruitier attempt to enforce an unenforceable statute. Who says that? Why. the Wickersham Commission! [Loud laughter.] Think of the billions...
...American Council of St. Luke's International Medical Centre at Tokyo: "I have no hesitation in saying that St. Luke's Hospital is the most outstanding American development I saw while in Japan." Whereupon the Council at once elected him a director, and Council President George Woodward Wickersham exclaimed: "Well...
...gain the highest honors in the Law School immediately after spending two years in military training, and among the difficulties of war. His legal experience has been further extended by his practical work as a lawyer in New York as a partner in a firm, and a member of Wickersham's commission, where he performed valuable work...