Word: youngquist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week resignations poured in upon the White House as Republican officials quit before the oncoming Democratic tide. Joshua Reuben Clark Jr. stepped out as Ambassador to Mexico. James Clifton Stone surrendered the chairmanship of the Federal Farm Board. Gustaf Aaron Youngquist, appointed as the Department of Justice's Dry hope, resigned as Assistant Attorney General...
...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...
...Said Mr. Youngquist: "The law-enforcing agencies of Government . . . are not much more than the framework in an organization of the kind required . . . one agent to every 70,000 [inhabitants]. The utter impossibility of making enforcement effective by that means alone is at once apparent. . . . And the States have machinery ready to work. . . . The number [of State officers] is probably near 175,000 now, as compared with a force of 1,750 agents in the Bureau of Prohibition...
...General Gustav Aaron Young-quist (successor to famed Mabel Walker Willebrandt). When he came into office last year from the attorney generalship of Minnesota, this quiet, practical, tight-mouthed man declared: "I'm a Dry but not a fanatic." Responsible for actual Dry enforcement under Assistant Attorney General Youngquist was Amos Walter Wright Woodcock, appointed director of Prohibition fortnight...
Assistant Attorney General Youngquist in charge of Prohibition was unable to tell why responsibility for alcohol permits was to be divided between the Justice and Treasury departments. Attorney General Mitchell appeared, blanketed the Williamson Bill with his approval, opposed administration by his department of industrial alcohol, promised lawful law enforcement. From another source he made known that under him no more wires would be tapped to secure evidence, even though the Supreme Court had sanctioned this practice. Declared the Justice Department's Chief Inspector J. Edgar Hoover...