Word: mabell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Mrs. Lucy Cotton Thomas Ament, beauteous relict of Publisher Edward Russell Thomas of the New York morning Telegraph, onetime actress (Turn to the Right, Up in Mabel's Room); and Lieut.-Commander Charles Hann Jr., Manhattan lawyer, onetime Harvard football star, whom she met last October at the wedding of Richard Brown Scandrett Jr., socialite nephew of Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow; secretly, last month; in Towson, Md. From Col. Thomas Mrs. Thomas inherited riches (she sued successfully for her one-third dower-right) and the morning Telegraph, Broadwayish sporting sheet (she dynamically edited for two years...
What put these Dry sessions on the front pages of the public prints was not their routine doings but the sudden appearance of Mrs. Mabel Elizabeth Walker Willebrandt, onetime (1921-29) U. S. Assistant Attorney General in charge of Prohibition. She had come to defend her new occupation as counsel for Fruit Industries, Inc. (TIME, Oct. 20). Because of her connection with this firm selling a grape juice concentrate easily convertible into wine, Drys have eyed Mrs. Willebrandt as a backslider in their Cause. After first refusing to hear her, the Temperance Council finally cracked open its doors...
...work of the Hostess House began in 1927 in a tenement on Shepard Street. The present establishment was given to the Medical Department by Miss Mabel Lyman in memory of her parents Arthur Theodore and Ella Lowell Lyman. The house at the present time is not a regular part of Harvard University...
...That there still is some doubt about the Hoover Administration's attitude toward home-fermented wine was further indicated last week when Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, onetime Dry prosecutor for the U. S., announced she would insist upon a clear statement from Washington. She is attorney for Fruit Industries Inc. (TIME...
...charge of conspiring to forge French coins of small denomination. His explanation: he was having some little medals made resembling French coins with which he was going to surprise his U. S. friends at Christmas. With him at the time of his arrest was his good friend Mabel ("Queen of Diamonds") Boll who subsequently fled to Paris...