When President Hoover reached his office one morning last week, he found lying on his desk the Prohibition report of his Commission on Law Enforcement & Law Observance. After 20 months, Chairman George Woodward Wickersham had brought it in a large manila envelope before 9 a. m., left it with a secretary. Running his eye through its 286 printed pages. President Hoover could perceive that it was simply one colossal job of weaseling. "Let us try a little longer," was its gist.
Its headline conclusions read as follows: "THE COMMISSION IS OPPOSED TO":
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