Word: wickershamed
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...Wickersham Attends...
Thick and fast flew the questions at New London. Was Commissioner Wickersham demanding that all States give more material assistance to the U. S. on enforcement? Or did he hint at local option, with each State free to deal with Prohibition as local sentiment dictated? The words "modify" and "reasonably enforcible" caused Dry Governors to bristle with hostility...
Missouri's Caulfield: "Mr. Wickersham had no business making such a premature and ill-advised announcement. . . . The usefulness of President Hoover's commission has been seriously harmed...
...Roosevelt, who had carefully avoided Prohibition in his own speech, characterized the Wickersham proposal as "speculative" and moved across the ballroom to take a seat among the Dry Southern Governors. Observers got the impression that, as a Presidential candidate for 1932, he had already commenced to "play safe" on this issue...
...resignation of Chairman George Woodward Wickersham of the Hoover Law Enforcement Commission because of his Prohibition letter...