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...contained 12% alcohol. . . . Winemaking will receive little consideration from the enforcement unit. . . . The job of the Prohibition Bureau ... is to enforce the law against the big, commercial violators. . . . Wine may be made in the home for use in the home." Thus last month spoke Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock. He added that such wine might legally be transported...
...press gloated. The tabloid New York Daily News screamed: MABEL WINS WINK FROM U. S. ON WINE! Explanation: Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, onetime Assistant Attorney General in charge of Prohibition and good friend of Director Woodcock, is counsel for Fruit Industries, Inc. Fruit Industries Inc. is an affiliate of the California Grape Control Board whose members were, at the moment when Director Woodcock spoke, harvesting a bumper grape crop of 870,000 tons, representing an investment of some $300,000,000. Of this crop 450,000 tons, enough to make 67,000,000 gal. of juice, were wine grapes...
...Director Woodcock, however, intended no such thing. The Wet press had misinterpreted him. He had spoken of wine-making in the home, not of the sale of grapes or grapejuice for winemaking. When fortnight ago his Bureau of Prohibition Compilation obtained figures showing that all U. S. wine grapes produced last year were made into wine, that U. S. annual wine consumption has risen to 118,329,300 gal. from 52,418,430 gal. in 1914, he spoke again. He explained that any big sale of grapes for wine-making would encounter trouble from his Bureau. He said...
...Woodcock, who is an United States attorney for the district of Maryland, said he had a fund of $40,000 at his disposal, part of which was available to endow the scholarships...
...Woodcock stated that graduate students could, he believed, make accurate surveys on prohibition; he said he was not interested in obtaining propaganda concerning...