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...Assistant Attorney General, to take charge of enforcement following its projected transfer from the Treasury to the Department of Justice. The Christian Herald opened her campaign under the caption: "TO DRY UP AMERICA: MABEL WALKER WILLEBRANDT." Dr. Daniel A. Poling, the Christian Herald's editor, declared that "every prohibitionist in the U. S. . . . will experience disappointment and regret" if this "remarkable woman" is allowed to retire. He called her "the first figure in the whole field of law observance and law enforcement...
...Macon News, had waited there in his parked car to eye the wet Tammany candidate. Publisher McKenny's News was the largest and perhaps bitterest anti-Smith organ in Georgia. As the Smith car vanished, Publisher McKenny, who is a Kiwanian, a Methodist and a life-long prohibitionist, boasted...
...following article on the possibility of Prohibition enforcement was written for the Crimson by Thomas Nixon Carver, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy in the University. Professor Carver's article is a prohibitionist's view of the article by President Lowell which appears in the current Atlantic Monthly...
...Secretary and the President-Elect had reached an "accord." In the second place Mr. Hoover had been widely credited with a desire to appoint Col. William J. Donovan, present Assistant Attorney General, to the Attorney General's Cabinet position. Mr. Donovan is a Catholic, is also no ardent prohibitionist, consequently Klan and other anti-Catholic influences are against him as are also prohibitionists who are vitally interested in the supposition that Mr. Hoover may shift prohibition enforcement from the Treasury Department to the Department of Justice. Thus, Mr. Donovan, desirable, is perhaps not available. Other Cabinet appointments remain much...
...Thomas Bat'a became swelled-headed and assumed the airs of a "Gentleman Manager." Upon discovering that the firm was losing money, however, he renounced gentility "and ever since hard work has been his hobby." Employes of the Founder also know that he, like Henry Ford, is a prohibitionist in theory and an abstainer in practice...