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...Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Manhattan having pledged the faith of its operators to enforce the Prohibition laws to the best of their abilities, Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock abandoned padlock proceedings which had been begun after a raid last summer...
...consider" any political offers. Enforcement. Prohibition suffered no change as a result of the Clark decision. Other Federal judges in New Jersey, disagreeing with their colleague said they would not be bound by his views, continued convicting and sentencing Dry law violators. To his New Jersey subordinates Prohibition Director Woodcock wired: DON'T BE DISCOURAGED BY JUDGE CLARK'S DECISION. CARRY ON. Hoover's "Out." One of the wildest rumors generated by the ruling was that Judge Clark made his ruling with the knowledge and consent of the White House, to provide President Hoover with a neat...
...session the Prohibitors voted against any sort of Prohibition referendum as "unauthorized, unconstitutional and unprecedented." They endorsed all the Wickersham Commission's enforcement bills, appointed a "combined board of Unified Strategy" under gentle, white-haired Mrs. Boole to plan their 1932 fight. They quizzed and cheered Prohibition Director Woodcock. Noticeable was a new but vain demand by lay Prohibitors to be included in the Dry leadership on equal terms with clergymen...
This was a long-heralded campaign begun by Fruit Industries, Inc., an association of California grapemen backed in their effort to dispose of a bumper crop by a $1,300,000 loan from the Federal Farm Board (TIME, Oct. 20). At once Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock was besieged with queries. Previously he had said: "Wine may be made in the home for use in the home." Then, when that remark received wide publicity, he had said: "It is all a question of intent. . . ." Following that, his men had obtained the indictment of nine California grapemen for advertising that...
...After hiring Mrs. Willebrandt. [the company] picked out New Haven for trial of sales experiment. This was turned down by Washington. They then picked Cleveland. This was also turned down by Washington, and they were told to put on the opening campaign in Milwaukee." Upon this statement also Director Woodcock declined last week to comment...