Word: wickershamed
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Although the majority of the 11 commissioners who drew up the report agreed with Dean Pound in his move for moderation, nevertheless the two who advocated repeal, the two in favor of further trial, and the three champions (including Chairman G. W. Wickersham) of stricter enforcement, succeeded in forcing a compromise which advocated essentially no change whatever...
...Wickersham report, product of more than nineteen months of expert investigation, is a stand-off pure and simple. Whatever the endeavor, the result is a document that is all things to all men. Read one way, neither wets nor dry can extract much solace from it; read another, both can find comfort in it, the wets because nearly all of the individual opinions favor their side of the cause, and the dry because the report as a whole stands for the existing order of things...
...present system of national prohibition, or (2) to remit the matter in whole or in part to the States, or (3) "to adopt any system of effective control." The only consistent members of the commission appear to be the wet Mr. Lemann, who refuses to sign, and Chairman Wickersham, who is a thorough-going dry and so writes in his individual report. Of the four remaining members, all would favor the revised Amendment after further trial of enforcement. In other words, a wet commission by some strange twist of mind and mathematics, has succeeded in getting out a dry report...
...executive session the Prohibitors voted against any sort of Prohibition referendum as "unauthorized, unconstitutional and unprecedented." They endorsed all the Wickersham Commission's enforcement bills, appointed a "combined board of Unified Strategy" under gentle, white-haired Mrs. Boole to plan their 1932 fight. They quizzed and cheered Prohibition Director Woodcock. Noticeable was a new but vain demand by lay Prohibitors to be included in the Dry leadership on equal terms with clergymen...
...Lifehitz '31, J. E. Lightle '33, R. Livermore '32, W. E. McCarron '32, J. J. Mellen '33, E. F. Noyes '32, J. H. Rowell '31, Captain J. E. Sheldon '32, L. Soutter '31, H. Ulfelder '32, C. Y. Wadsworth '32, W. S. Warner '32, C. W. Wickersham '32 and J. R. Collins '32, Manager...