Word: woodcock
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Prohibition Bureau director, James Maurice Doran. This year enforcement was taken out of their hands, transferred to the Department of Justice (TIME, July 7). Last week Assistant-Attorney-General-in-charge-of-Prohibition Gustaf Aaron Youngquist made a radio-network speech and his Prohibition Bureau director, Amos Walter Wright Woodcock made a statement. Speech and statement amounted to: "More men. More money. Co-operation from State enforcement agencies...
Because many a citizen has been stopped on the highroad by U. S. Prohibition agents whose say-so was their only identification, Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock last week announced that all automobiles carrying such agents will be marked with a distinctive shield on the right front door. The shield will read...
UNITED STATES OFFICIAL BUREAU OF PROHIBITION Until 1,000 such signs have been made, Prohibition agents are under orders from Director Woodcock not to shoot at motorists' tires-practice which in the past has resulted in fatalities. Uniforms for the accosting agents were suggested to the Director. He discarded that idea chiefly because of the cost. Also last week Director Woodcock showed baffled newshawks a complicated graph compiled from usual and unusual sources, on the Department of Justice's results during its first month (July) in the enforcement field. This revealed that 6,524 arrests had been made...
Daily Reports. Like brigade commanders to their superior, the administrators of the twelve Prohibition districts, which correspond roughly to the Federal Court circuits, must report daily to Chief Woodcock. What they report will have been gathered by numerous assistant administrators under them-the regimental commanders of this army. Their reports will contain the doings of their regiments of Dry agents each...
Research, Propaganda. As a separate part of his Bureau, Chief Woodcock announced the formation of a Division of Research & Public Instruction, which will compile statistics on arrests for drunkenness, deaths from cirrhosis of the liver, importation & exportation of hops, production of corn sugar, etc., etc. and announce its findings to the public. "I have an opening in this division for some first-class people," said...