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Enforceability Shelved. The slow mournful voice of Senator Wesley Livsey Jones of Washington announced the results of a call upon the National Law Enforcement Commission. Alarmed lest the Commission delve into the enforceability rather than the enforcement of Prohibition, Senator Jones had sought out Chairman George Woodward Wickersham to learn the Commission's true purpose. This he announced...
President Hoover called in Senators Harris and Borah, soothed them with kind words. Chairman George Woodward Wickersham announced that his commission's report on "Law Enforcement" was ready. Undersecretary of the Treasury Mills plotted out a scheme of enforcement improvements whereby the coast guard and the border patrol would be unified, the number of ports of entry along the border reduced. From the White House emanated intimations of more shakeups, further reorganizations, in the enforcement service; of the President's putting U. S. district attorneys on their mettle. Senator Sheppard of Texas, author of the 18th Amendment, dusted...
...partly on a low plateau deeply serrated by close-wooded hollows. The process of erosion has done well by the university, for Cornell's ravines are a joy to her poetasters, a convenience to her cavaliers, a laboratory for her scientists. The late longtime (since 1889) Trustee Henry Woodward Sackett, Manhattan lawyer, counsel for the New York Herald Tribune, loved well these natural wonders. Said he: "Since my first knowledge of Cornell University, I have regarded the beautiful deep ravines or gorges . . .'as among the choicest physical assets of the university. . . . Every one who matriculates . . . will carry through...
...David Riesman, Jr., W. A. Robertson, F. B. Robinson, David Russell, F. G. Shaw, Jr., J. H. Smith, III. W. M. Southgate, E. K. Straus, P. M. Sweezy, W. D. Taylor, T. G. Upton. A. F. Wadsworth, R. R. Walcott, A. J. Waterman, Jr., R. W. Williams, Jr. Harper Woodward...
...Reiland, "greatly disappointed," did not despair. For he too had legal counsel: Lawyers Robert Fulton Cutting, civic-minded Manhattan millionaire (TIME, Feb. 14, 1927) and George Woodward Wickersham, onetime (1909-13) U. S. Attorney-General, now chairman of President Hoover's law-enforcement commission. They had assured him that the prayer book's prohibition refers to "church" in the sense of "congregation" and would not apply to the loan of a building. Though he tactfully yielded to the bishop's "official admonition," Dr. Reiland felt his legal position was as good as his bishop...