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...successor to famed Mabel Walker Willebrandt). When he came into office last year from the attorney generalship of Minnesota, this quiet, practical, tight-mouthed man declared: "I'm a Dry but not a fanatic." Responsible for actual Dry enforcement under Assistant Attorney General Youngquist was Amos Walter Wright Woodcock, appointed director of Prohibition fortnight...
...Director Woodcock was ready to move into his new offices on the fifth floor of the Southern Railway building (Commissioner Doran was two floors below him). Aged 46, bachelor, Methodist, Lieutenant Colonel in the A. E. F. with a reputation as a hard drill master, able lawyer, Director Woodcock had served eight years as U. S. District Attorney at Baltimore. His home is at Salisbury on Maryland's "Eastern Shore." Tall and thin with sharp aggressive features, he believes in Prohibition with all his heart. He was at first reluctant to take this new post, but when...
...director in the Prohibition Bureau, newly transferred from the Treasury Department to the Department of Justice, President Hoover last week appointed Lieut.-Colonel Amos Walter Wright Woodcock, U. S. District Attorney at Baltimore...
...clocks for 5:30 a. m. Valets laid out scarlet coats and white breeches. Stalwart young women wore derby hats at dawn. In Britain sportsmen remembered John Peel and his song more than on other Octobers, for last week marked the looth anniversary of the day when one John Woodcock Graves, poet-fox hunter, first bawled "D'ye ken John Peel with his coat so gray"* in the cosy bar parlor of the Rising Sun Inn at Caldbeck, in the rough Cumberland hills. From the "Big Grass" county of Leicestershire, enthusiasts traveled north to Caldbeck, where Peel lies buried...
...Kentucky is divided into two Episcopalian dioceses. Over Louisville's presides Bishop Charles Edward Woodcock. The bishop of the hill-country diocese of Lexington, who recently resigned, is gentle soft-spoken Lewis William Burton...