Word: wickershamed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prohibition question was injected into the otherwise tranquil conference by a letter from Chairman George Woodward Wickersham of the National Law Enforcement Commission to Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York in which Mr. Wickersham proposed an enforcement scheme whereby the U. S. would deal with wholesale bootleggery, the States with the retail trade. He hinted at modification to make the law "reasonably enforceable...
Though the governors did nothing about it, the Wickersham letter produced reverberations and repercussions throughout the land, set politicians and prohibitors to talking out loud...
...Washington, Dry Senator Borah of Idaho remarked: "Mr. Wickersham has at last succeeded in making it clear that he regards the law as unenforceable...
Senator Glass recalled that Prohibition had not been named by name in either the Hoover or the Wickersham speeches inaugurating the Commission's work, and added: "These omissions could not have been merely coincident. Obviously they must have been agreed...
...Chairman Wickersham was asked: "Would it be possible ... for you to report . . . that national Prohibition is unenforceable?" He replied: "Yes, it is intellectually possible-[a smile]-but certainly improbable...