Word: lowman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Embargo On. Fortnight ago Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Seymour Lowman, once in charge of Prohibition enforcement, now of Customs, precipitately slapped a tariff embargo on Russian pulpwood, imported chiefly by International Paper Co. through Amtorg Trading Corp. from Archangel (TIME, August 4). His authority: Section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930 which prohibits importation of "all goods, wares, articles and merchandise mined, produced or manufactured wholly or in part in any foreign country by convict labor." His reason: secret evidence that Soviet political prisoners were logging the forests of North Russia. Pressed for details, he would only...
Prejudice? The suspicion that Mr. Lowman's personal prejudice against Communism was involved with his enforcement of the tariff law grew when he gave the New York Herald Tribune an inflammatory interview against the Soviet program. Excerpts...
...Seymour Lowman, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of Customs, Coast Guard & Prohibition last week scoffed at these accusations, called Major Campbell "a weak character...
Carefully Mr. Mellon sat down in the witness chair, at his elbow Assistant Secretary Lowman, behind him Prohibition Commissioner James Maurice Doran. Before the Committee was the enforcement transfer bill written by Dry Representative William Williamson of Rapid City, S. Dak. (Coolidge 1927 summer resort), homesteader, rural editor, lawyer, title abstractor. Major issue of the transfer is: where to put industrial alcohol control? The Williamson bill weasles this question, provides for joint control by the Treasury and Justice Departments...
...leggers had learned how to "cook out" milder denaturants. What Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lowman called "a last resource" was the change in Formula 44-A: 100 gal. grain alcohol, 4 gal. wood alcohol (replacing 2 gal. gasoline), 10 gal. fusel oil or amyl alcohol. Chief Chemist William Vanarsdale Linder of the Prohibition Unit explained that alcohol thus denatured was only for the varnish and lacquer industry, not for the public...