Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...transfer of Prohibition enforcement from his department to the Department of Justice. What was painful to him was not the prospect of parting with Prohibition-he had had nine years of it-but the instinctive discomfort of a shy man appearing before a Congressional committee on a controversial question...
...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...
...Mellon picked up his tiny cigar, puffed it nervously. He would have liked to depart at that point. But Congressmen do not often get a chance to cross-question the Secretary of the Treasury and when they do they make the most...
...Question: Was the Bureau of Prohibition under your direction efficient...
Mellon: It doesn't seem to me to be a question of efficiency. It is a question of legislation before...