Word: lowman
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...charges that Washington influence had hindered his enforcement work (TIME, July 14). Last week he began publishing in the New York World (reputed to have paid him $10,000) a series of articles amplifying those accusations. Photostatic copies of letters sent him by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Seymour Lowman, onetime Prohibition Bureau Director James Maurice Doran (now Director of Industrial Alcohol), and Acting Prohibition Commissioner Alf Oftedal illustrated his text. Most important among those accused of hindering the Administrator: Charles Curtis, Vice President...
...article, the Vice President last week said: "I was greatly amazed. ... I have never used my influence either directly or indirectly to have such a permit issued and, if my name was used by any one, it was done without my knowledge or consent." Remained, however, the Lowman letters specifically mentioning direct pressure by Mr. Curtis, the Senator...
...More men. More money. Cooperation from State enforcement agencies." That was long the refrain of Assistant-Secretary-of-the-Treasury-in-charge-of-Prohibition Seymour Lowman, and his Prohibition Bureau director, James Maurice Doran. This year enforcement was taken out of their hands, transferred to the Department of Justice (TIME, July 7). Last week Assistant-Attorney-General-in-charge-of-Prohibition Gustaf Aaron Youngquist made a radio-network speech and his Prohibition Bureau director, Amos Walter Wright Woodcock made a statement. Speech and statement amounted to: "More men. More money. Co-operation from State enforcement agencies...
Embargo Off. Impressed, Assistant Secretary Lowman decided that the Treasury had "gone off half-cocked." He revoked his pulpwood embargo. He admitted that the evidence "was conflicting and inconclusive . . . and not sufficient to establish the fact that the pulpwood was produced by convict labor...
Muddled Geography. What the original embargo evidence was remained an official secret. But it was understood that Mr. Lowman had acted on: 1) a general Soviet order for use of convicts in the lumber industry; 2) affidavits of escaped prisoners from a lumber camp. It developed that the "escaped prisoners" were not from the pulpwood forests along the Dvina River, but from the island of Silesky, 1,200 mi. away, where no export timber is cut. Mr. Lowman, it appeared, had never studied Russia's geography very closely...