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Quietly from the Washington scene last week passed the National (Wickersham) Commission on Law Observance & Enforcement, its legal life ended. Twentyfive months ago President Hoover called it into being as his first and greatest special agency. Its eleven members trooped importantly to the White House. President Hoover made them a speech of welcome in the Cabinet Room. Photographs were taken on the rear posing-ground. An elaborate luncheon was served in the State dining room. Press headlines throughout the land blared the news. Last week there were no White House ceremonies, no Hoover speech of thanks, no news pictures...
Romance. But unexpected romance saved the Commission's exit from being altogether drab. When Dean Roscoe Pound of the Harvard Law School, second only to Chairman George Woodward Wickersham in legal eminence, went to Washington in 1929 to serve his President as a commissioner, he put up at the Lafayette Hotel on 16th Street. Who should also be staying there but Mrs. Lucy Berry Miller, widow of his old Washington friend, Dr. James E. Miller. When Dean Pound, himself a widower, was not hard at work at the Commission's headquarters, he courted Mrs. Miller about the hotel and elsewhere...
Reports. Moved out of his Tower Building suite with its airy outlook and fine furniture, Chairman Wickersham last week hired out of his own pocket a tiny office with two second-hand desks and chairs in the Walker-Johnson Building, close to the White House. There with two assistants and a clerk he read proof on the Commission's unfinished reports. In 25 months the Commission had spent $475,000 of its $500.000 appropriation. It had made four reports to the President : 1) Prohibition (preliminary); 2) Prohibition (final); 3) crime statistics; 4) prosecutions...
Married. Roscoe Pound, 60, Dean of Harvard Law School since 1916, member of the Wickersham Law Enforcement Commission (which expired with June? see p. 13); and Mrs. James E. Miller, 49, widow of Dean Pound's old friend Dr. James E. Miller, organizer of Government hospitals for War veterans. Honeymoon: to Europe. Dean Pound's first wife, who was Grace Gerard of Columbus, Neb., died...
With the blessing of Wall Street and all other markets upon him, President Hoover motored to his Rapidan camp to relax. Mrs. Hoover had preceded him there. Their guests included George Woodward Wickersham, Bruce Barton, Newbold Noyes (Washington editor), Edgar Rickard (old business friend). Behind him the President left a world still echoing with his praise. Happiest of cities was Berlin. Its 6 ft. 6 in. Ober-burgermeister, Heinrich ("Uncle Sam") Sahm, went before the International Convention of Building Trades fervently to declare: "I propose President Hoover for the Nobel Peace Prize. He is a candidate without competition. His action...