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...National Law Enforcement Commission, after a four-month holiday, went to grips again with Prohibition last week. As its eleven members gathered in Washington, Chairman George Woodward Wickersham, all a-twinkle with good humor, remarked to curious newsmen: "You never can tell what kind of blossom will bloom until the plant develops...
...scope of its inquiry. One group of Commissioners wanted to go to what Commissioner Mackintosh called the "guts" of Prohibition? i. e., the enforceability of the 18th Amendment. Other commissioners wished to examine only the skin, study only enforcement procedure. When, after the first day's wrangle, Chairman Wickersham again received newsmen, his spirits seemed less buoyant. Guardedly he declared...
...lineups of the game follow: INTERCOLLEGIATES HARVARD Alsop, g. g., Faude Blair, l.f.b. r.f.b., Catinella Johnson, r.f.b. l.f.b., Heard Campbell, l.h.b. r.h.b., E. Carter Green, c.h.b. c.h.b., W. Carter Kurness, r.h.b. l.h.b., Bland Warfield, l.o.f. r.o.f., Grover Ogle, Wickersham, l.i.f. r.i.f., Eaton Baker, c.f. c.f., Broadbent Danielian, r.i.f. l.i.f., Frame Bodde, r.o.f. l.o.f., Schumacher
...Prohibition came again before the convention when Chairman George Woodward Wickersham of the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement gave his standard speech on the commission's work. He bemoaned the public assumption that his commission was to deal primarily with Prohibition, denied a citizen's right to pick and choose among laws to be obeyed, agreed that criminal law was being unsatisfactorily administered...
George Woodward Wickersham. France, Sweden, Switzerland...