Lincoln Clark Andrews
Encyclopedia
Lincoln Clark Andrews was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury starting in 1925. He was in charge of Prohibition
enforcement after Roy Asa Haynes
held the office. Time
magazine called his forces the Prohibition Army.
Andrews reorganized the bureau in 1925, resulting in the layoffs of numerous agents, including Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith
in New York, who were nationally the most successful and famous team.
He died in 1950.
Prohibition
Prohibition of alcohol, often referred to simply as prohibition, is the practice of prohibiting the manufacture, transportation, import, export, sale, and consumption of alcohol and alcoholic beverages. The term can also apply to the periods in the histories of the countries during which the...
enforcement after Roy Asa Haynes
Roy Asa Haynes
Roy Asa Haynes was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of Prohibition enforcement from 1920-1925. He was succeeded by political appointee Lincoln Clark Andrews, who reorganized the enforcement bureau. He was the editor of a daily newspaper in Hillsboro, Ohio. Haynes was appointed by...
held the office. Time
Time (magazine)
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magazine called his forces the Prohibition Army.
Biography
He was born in 1867.Andrews reorganized the bureau in 1925, resulting in the layoffs of numerous agents, including Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith
Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith
Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith were United States federal police officers, agents of the U.S. Prohibition Unit, who achieved the most successful number of arrests and convictions during the first years of the alcohol prohibition era...
in New York, who were nationally the most successful and famous team.
He died in 1950.