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...Senate last week gave President Hoover the first?and probably the last ?Dry legislation recommended by his National Law Enforcement Commission when it passed the House bill to transfer Prohibition enforcement from the Treasury Department to the Department of Justice. After July 1, field agents numbering 2,263 and 153 Washington clerks will find themselves working under Attorney General Mitchell, instead of Secretary Mellon, as Enforcer-in-Chief (TIME...
Major benefit of transfer: tighter coordination between Dry raids and prosecutions...
Major criticism of transfer: divided authority between the Treasury and the Justice Department for the issuance of industrial alcohol permits to the drug, paint and chemical trades...
Still lusting for political expenditures, the House next took up and passed a $110,000,000 River and Harbor improvement bill. Chief contest: acquisition by the U. S. from New York State of the Erie Canal, a money-loser. Western members, pledged to the St. Lawrence waterway, flayed this transfer as a New York plot to kill off the seaway through Canada...
...transaction to alter the positions of Radio's Executive Committee Chairman Owen D. Young, or Chairman James G. Harbord or President David Sarnoff. Mr. Sarnoff said that the new arrangement would result in operating economies resulting in cheaper radio sets and tubes and that the stock transfer represented compensation for the patent and manufacturing facilities acquired. Meanwhile Oswald Schuette, executive secretary of the Radio Protective Association (anti-Radio Corp. radiomen) said that "this $6,000,000.000 monopoly was a challenge to the Department of Justice, the Federal Radio Commission and the Congress...