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Amos W. W. Woodcock '12, national prohibition enforcement head, yesterday advocated the establishment of a number of scholarships, preferably at Harvard and the University of Wisconsin, to encourage the study of prohibition in regard to the economic life of America...
...Daley. Professor Ames next takes the chair to trace the botanical development of the earth's crust. This completes the first half year's work with smatterings of laboratory work on plants which despite its brief survey is still one of the best pleas for the course. Professors Woodcock and Wyman hold the rostrum for the second half year with their explanations of zoological transformations. The practical research accompanying these lectures becomes dull and there is little of worth accomplished so varied and diversified are the natures of the experiments, which incidentally everyone knows the answers to before they start...
...Woodcock said he saw no possibility of complying with the President's request for departmental economies; he would spend his entire $15,000,000 appropriation this year and ask for more next year; he must have his prospective staff increase of 500 men (TIME, Aug. 11) in order to pursue his program. He pointed out that the division of enforcement work between the Treasury Department (which handles industrial alcohol permits, Coast Guard and Customs enforcement) and the Department of Justice (which handles intramural cases), increased the cost by increasing overhead...
...Service of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, Treasury Department, and was transferred to the Prohibition Bureau ten years ago. He went with the Bureau from the Treasury Department to the Department of Justice this year (TIME, July 7), will continue his courses as adjuncts to Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock's new personal instruction plan (TIME, Aug. 11). Last week a newshawk obtained one of Mr. Dengler's textbooks, Correspondence Study Lessons on Criminal Investigation...
...Last week Director Woodcock announced the appointments of Randolph Shaw, special assistant to the Attorney General, major in the Army Reserve Corps, to be chief of the Prohibition Bureau's Law Division, and of Dwight E. Avis, Detroit Dry Agent, to be chief of the new corps of 200 "super-agents," the director's confidential detectives assigned to uncover big rum-running rings...