Ever since the National Commission on Law Observance & Law Enforcement issued its Prohibition report in January, 72-year-old Chairman George Woodward Wickersham has been hounded for an explanation of how the Commission's Wet majority reached Dry conclusions. Last week Chairman Wickersham journeyed to Boston where in an address to the Chamber of Commerce he made his first public comment on his report. Excerpts:
"The publication was met with an outburst of hostile criticism. . . . Curiously enough the most abusive articles came almost exclusively from the Wet press. I say curiously because I...
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