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George Woodward Wickersham, President Taft's Attorney General. France
...easier to put away wine glasses than it was to make Congress like the N.L.E.C. Chairman Wickersham had asked Congress for another $250,000 to carry on his Commission's inquiry into all laws for a second year. He had $88,000 left unexpended out of the first year's allowance. The Commission had used only $8,000 specifically on Prohibition work. The House on a parliamentary technicality knocked out all new funds for the Commission. In the Senate Senator Carter Glass of Virginia assaulted the N.L.E.C. on the ground that it had frittered away time and money...
...Chairman Wickersham called on President Hoover, came out to announce: "Were not quitters...
Drys throughout the land last week were on the alert for any change of policy incident to the transfer. They thought they detected a suggestion of some such shift in a statement by Attorney General Mitchell which seemed to echo the recommendations of George Woodward Wickersham, Chairman of the National Law Enforcement Commission, for a more marked division of enforcement responsibility between the states and the U. S. Said Mr. Mitchell...
Attorney General Mitchell's language appeared to shift the emphasis of the Wickersham view from the duty of states to help enforcement to a rationalized form of responsibility whereby each state would get the kind of enforcement it was ready to give. Drys were told, in effect, they could hardly expect better enforcement in Wet states. Many a Wet wondered whether this policy, if it was a policy, would be extended to its logical conclusion of letting Wet states stay Wet. Although the Justice Department shied away from formulating any specific division of enforcement responsibilities, it apparently meant...