Word: wickershamed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Caraway of Arkansas: "Prohibition suffered the worst blow by the Wickersham statement that it has ever received. ... I expect Wickersham to resign soon. . . . Personally I hope he resigns. . . . The usefulness of the Commission is destroyed if he remains at its head...
...Roosevelt's speech was tame until he quoted Commissioner Wickersham...
...sociable time. This year's Conference, held last week by 22 Governors assembled in New London, Conn., bubbled with unusual excitement when Gov. Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York injected into it a letter on Prohibition which he had obtained from no less a personage than George Woodward Wickersham, chairman of President Hoover's National Commission on Law Enforcement and Observance...
...this proposal lay in the fact that until then the Hoover Law Enforcement Commission had studiously avoided specific mention of Prohibition as a crime problem. How did Gov. Roosevelt get such a message? Was it meant for public use? Gov. Roosevelt explained that he had written to Mr. Wickersham, asked for some ideas. Responding in longhand from Bar Harbor, Me., Mr. Wickersham had explained: "I have no stenographer with me but I feel that your letter calls for the most helpful reply I can give and I hope that what I have written may suggest something of value in preparation...
Thick and fast flew the questions at New London. Was Commissioner Wickersham demanding that all States give more material assistance to the U. S. on enforcement? Or did he hint at local option, with each State free to deal with Prohibition as local sentiment dictated? The words "modify" and "reasonably enforcible" caused Dry Governors to bristle with hostility...