WICKERSHAM, GEORGE WOODWARD

1858–1936, American lawyer and government official, b. Pittsburgh. He began law practice in Philadelphia, and after moving (1882) to New York City, he became a prominent corporation lawyer. As U.S. Attorney General (1909–13) under President Taft, he successfully prosecuted many corporations under the Sherman Antitrust Act. His book The Changing Order (1914) deals with monopolies. In 1929 he was appointed by President Hoover to head the National Commission on Law Observance and Law Enforcement, which came to be called the Wickersham Commission. It concluded in its final report of 1931 that the federal machinery for enforcing criminal law in the United States was inadequate. It found in particular that prohibition enforcement had broken down, and the majority (which did not include Wickersham) recommended revision (but not repeal) of the 18th Amendment.

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books on: Wickersham George Woodward  - 27 results

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Washington and the Revolution, a Reappraisal: Gates, Conway, and the Continental Congress
Book by Bernhard Knollenberg; Macmillan, 1940
Subjects: United States--History--Revolution, Washington, George--1732-1799
...exploits of General George Washington. Faithfully...author 1800 . WOODWARD, William E. George Washington, the...Lancaster, Pa., Wickersham Press , 1893...exploits of General George Washington . Faithfully...1889.8 vols. WOODWARD, William E...
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Historical Dictionary of Law Enforcement
Book by Mitchel P. Roth, James S. Olson; Greenwood Press, 2001
Subjects: Law Enforcement--History--Dictionaries, Police--Biography--Dictionaries, Police--History--Dictionaries
...Alan Axelrod, CCC, 1996. WICKERSHAM, GEORGE WOODWARD. (1858-1936) Bom in Pittsburgh...then Pennsylvania Law School, Wickersham entered the legal profession...prestigious New York City law firm. Wickersham served as U.S. at- torney...
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The Reader's Encyclopedia: An Encyclopedia of World Literature and the Arts
Book by William Rose Benét; Thomas Y. Crowell, 1948
Subjects: Art--Dictionaries, Literature--Dictionaries, Music--Dictionaries
...engraving and was a book illustrator. Whyte-Melville, George John 1821-1878 . British novelist of the hunting...Wicked Wasp of Twickenham. See POPE, ALEXANDER. Wickersham, George Woodward 1858- 1936 . Attorney general of the United States...
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Woodrow Wilson and the People
Book by H. C. F. Bell; Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1945
Subjects: Wilson, Woodrow--1856-1924
...1812, 166 , 175 War Trade Board, 224 Washington, George, 37 Watterson, Col. Henry, 53 , 72 Webster...William Allen, 87 Whitney, William Collins, 46 Wickersham, George Woodward, 334 William II of Germany, agrees to abdicate...
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Letters of James Gibbons Huneker
Book by Josephine Huneker; Charles Scribners Sons, 1922
Subjects: Fiction
...Whistler, James McNeil, 50 White of The Herald , 70 Whitman, Stephen French, 215 , 217 Whitman, Walt, 202 Wickersham, George Woodward, 199 , 262 Widener, P. A. B., 201 Widor, 155 , 197 Wilde, Oscar, 56 , 112 , 163 Wildenbruch. See...
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journal articles on: Wickersham George Woodward  - 1 result

 
 
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Beyond Parochialism: Southern Progressivism, Prohibition, and State-Building
Journal article by Ann-Marie Szymanski; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 69, 2003
Subjects: Progressive movement--History, Progressivism (United States politics)--History, Prohibition--History, Prohibition--Political aspects, Southern United States--History, Southern United States--Political aspects
...Statutory prohibition: 1915 George W. Hays Florida Submission...1946), 172-95; C. Vann Woodward, Origins of the New South...University, 1958). (2) George Brown Tindall, The Persistent...first quotation on p. 62); George Harrison Gilliam, "Making...


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encyclopedia articles on: Wickersham George Woodward  - 3 results

 
 
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Wickersham, George Woodward
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
WICKERSHAM, GEORGE WOODWARD 1858 1936, American lawyer and government...Enforcement, which came to be called the Wickersham Commission. It concluded in its...majority (which did not include Wickersham) recommended revision (but not...
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Organized Crime
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Jimmy) Walker in New York City. Ultimately public revulsion, furthered by the Wickersham Commission investigation of 1930 (see Wickersham, George Woodward ) as well as by many municipal exposes (such as that of Judge Samuel Seabury in New...
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Kenyon, William Squire
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...1922 33) as judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and was (1929 30) a member of the Wickersham Commission (see Wickersham, George Woodward ). ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with...


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