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...Like an echo from the past came the account by Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt. retired Assistant Attorney-General, of the prosecution of Prohibition cases. With patent pride she gave the year's figures: 56,786 new cases started, 56,455 finished; 47,100 convictions. 1,477 acquittals; 21,602 jail sentences aggregating 8,663 years; $4,200,052 in fines collected. Mrs. Willebrandt insisted that ''contrary to the general belief, considerable success was obtained" in her prosecution of New York night clubs (TIME. Aug. 13, 1928). Of 98 defendants, 80 pleaded guilty, 15 were convicted on trial...
...Leavenworth outbreak awoke the Federal Government to its prison responsibilities. Though wardens' reports had reiterated figures on overcrowding, the only Federal prison reform of recent years was when Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, then Assistant Attorney-General, sent fake convicts to Atlanta and Leavenworth to snoop. She demanded the resignation of Atlanta's Warden John W. Snook "because of utter want of administrative ability" (TIME, March 25). Out went Snook, in came A. C. Aderholdt, who first worked for Atlanta prison as a construction gang foreman in 1906, later as prison guard, as record clerk. Now, as warden, he is softspoken...
...President appointed Gustav Aaron Youngquist of Minnesota to Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt's old post in the Department of Justice...
...advancing Mr. Youngquist to the Hoover sub-Cabinet. Almost entirely responsible for this appointment was Mr. Youngquist's new chief, U. S. Attorney-General William DeWitt Mitchell, also of Minnesota. For five months President Hoover and his astute Attorney-General had cast about for a successor to Mrs. Mabel Elizabeth Walker Willebrandt. Candidates there were galore from every State but the President's requirements were high: a thoroughgoing Dry, possessed of a sound legal mind and ample industry, beyond the influence of front-page publicity. Such a man Mr. Mitchell told President Hoover he would find...
Also among the 4,000 present were good-golfing U. S. Attorney General William DeWitt Mitchell, Wilson-praising Newton Diehl Baker, unpolitical Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, law-enforcing George Woodward Wickersham, Dean William Draper Lewis of the Pennsylvania Law School, Mexican-born Severe Mallet-Pre-vost, Emory Roy Buckner, Charles Seymour Whitman, George Wharton Pepper...