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Compromise. Apparently the ten Commissioners under Chairman George Woodward Wickersham, wrestling with their problem at their offices in Washington's Tower Building, had at last decided they could come nowhere near unanimity on any fundamental "Conclusion" or "Recommendation." except one. That one was: IF & when it is decided to alter Prohibition, let the word "regulate" be inserted in. the 18th Amendment, so that Congress can from time to time alter Prohibition to fit changing conditions. Having voiced that suggestion, and in the absence of a positive agreement having (all except Commissioner Lemann) signed their negative list of "Conclusions & Recommendations...
...minority of five?Chairman Wickersham, William Irwin Grubb of Alabama, William Squire Kenyon of Illinois, Kenneth Mackintosh of Washington, Paul John McCormick of California?favored further trial of Prohibition...
...Wickershambles, what spread confusion and dismay, were the personal statements of the several Commissioners, flying in the face of their Report, tending to nullify their formal advice to the President. In view of the Commissioners' undoubted integrity and intelligence, this glaring discrepancy be came the great mystery of the Wickersham Report...
...mere political platform, nailed down to girders of decision and principle. It was a magic carpet upon which any candidate for the Presidency in 1932 could fly now East, now West; now Dry, now Wet. Had President Hoover been so overweening as to ask Chairman Wickersham for a politically ideal report, Chairman Wickersham could not have complied more skilfully...
Comments. Few were the public men last week who did not have something to say about the Wickersham report and the President's message. Sample comments...