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FRESHMEN GOLD COAST Caturani, f.b. f.b., Jones Sonenfield, r.w. r.w., Gannon Nichols, r.c. r.c., Ossorio Whitney, l.c. l.c., Draper Potter, l.w. l.w., Earling Sherman, s.o.h. s.o.h., Kirkland Smith, h.b. h.b., Boyd Gilbert, l.f. l.f., Linder White, l.f. l.f., Elmore Davis, l.f. l.f., Osborne Schwyzer, 2f 2f., Lemann Moore, 2f. 2f., Bokenson Babbitt, 3f. 3f., Hunting Ward, 3f. 3f., Mitchell Simmonds, 3f. 3f., Watt...
...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...
...Modificationists?Commissioners Lemann & Baker?were for outright repeal...
...Repealer Lemann. Boldest of all was short, swart Commissioner Lemann (pronounced "lemon"), law professor at Tulane University, onetime president of the New Orleans Bar Association, an independent Wet. He alone refused to sign the full report. Instead he filed a voluminous opinion of his own in which he advocated outright repeal of the 18th Amendment. Said he: "Intoxicating liquor is readily obtainable in every city of consequence in the country. ... If the law is not enforceable in cities [where dwell 40% of U. S. population] it cannot be considered enforceable as a national instrument. ... I cannot find any reasonable ground...
Commissioner Lemann poked his finger squarely through the biggest hole in the Commission's suggested method for revising the 18th Amendment. To let Congress "regulate" liquor from time to time would, said he, throw the liquor question into national politics as never before...