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...eleven Commissioners, , a majority of one, called for a Change. They were: Henry Watkins Anderson of Virginia, Ada Louise Comstock of Massachusetts, Newton Diehl Baker of Ohio, Montefiore Mordecai Lemann of Louisiana, Frank Joseph Loesch of Illinois, Roscoe Pound of Massachusetts...
Revisionist Comstock. Commissioner Ada Comstock, tall, warm-hearted president of Radcliffe College, did not support the theory that Prohibition is woman's favorite law. In a terse clear statement she explained: "Adequate enforcement is impossible without the support of a much larger proportion of our population than it now commands. I ... favor an immediate attempt at change. ... I favor revision of the Amendment rather than its repeal...
Influenza (see p. 26) seized many a notable, including: Mme Ernestine Schumann-Heink; Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock; Prisoner, onetime Queens Borough President Maurice Connolly; Wickersham Commissioner and Radcliffe College President Ada Louise Comstock; Utah's Senator Reed Smoot...
...report of the Wickrsham Commission for the investigation of law enforcement, which was laid before President Hoover yesterday. Professor Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Harvard Law School, and Miss Ada L. Comstock, were of the common opinion that the present saws enforcing prohibition should be moderated...
...scream in the hall but wuz jest listenin' in on Amos & Andy and thought no more of it,' testified Mrs. Tilford Moots' brother, questioned in regard to the murder of his wife." Born into a newspaper family (his brother and sister, Horace K. and Ada A. Hubbard, publish the Examiner, Bellefontaine, Ohio), Kin Hubbard spent all his life in newspaper work...