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...Hoover had many times promised to consolidate the enforcement and prosecuting arms of the Federal Prohibition forces in one Department of the Government. Now, six months after Inauguration, nothing has been done. Congress was too busy last spring. The nine-man Law Enforcement Commission under Lawyer George Woodward Wickersham has been too busy fact-finding. And the 'President had to admit that there is no one now in his administration either free or capable enough to effect the transfer of the Treasury's enforcement bureau to the Department of Justice. So he called again for great-voiced John...
...McNab will be a sub-sub-committee of one, appended to a sub-committee of the Wickersham Commission. Besides reorganizing executive forces, he will study the notorious delays of Federal Court procedure. When his findings are ready perhaps his great voice will intone: "If anyone has any difficulty in hearing me in the remotest corners of this nation, do not blame it on Calif-o-ornia, but bla-ame it on Washington...
...company will include the Under Secretary of State Joseph P. Cotton, '96, the Honorable George W. Wickersham, Chairman of the President's National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement, deans and representatives of a number of the leading law schools of the country. United States Federal and State Judges, Canadian Judges, foreign lawyers and scholars, and a large representation from the American bar. Five hundred or more guests are expected to attend the ceremonies...
...proceedings are conducted by the Harvard Law School Association, whose President is Mr. William Thomas of San Francisco. Dean Roscoe Pound of the Harvard Law School, a member of the President's Commission of which Mr. Wickersham is Chairman, and the Under Secretary of State of the United States, Mr. Cotton, will address the guests. Following these addresses, a portrait of Dean Pound, painted by Mr. Charles Hopkinson of Boston, will be presented to the School by the Harvard Law School Association. The President of the University will receive the keys of the building from the architect, Mr. Charles...
...begin in the Courtroom of Langdell Hall. The proceedings will be conducted by the Harvard Law School Association, whose President is William Thomas of San Francisco. Canadian, Federal, and State Judges, many members of the American Bar and a number of foreign lawyers and scholars will attend. George W. Wickersham, Chairman of the President's National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement, will be present...