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Just as the Hollywood Marines were about to board the train, a swarm of process servers descended with writs for 15 of the men. Major Van Dyke exploded, declared he would turn the whole matter over to his attorney, Mabel Walker Willebrandt...
...subscriber, for the past five years to your most worthy and accurate periodical, I am taking the liberty of requesting you to correct a misstatement on p. 11 of the Nov. 26 issue, wherein you state Mabel Walker Willebrandt was the first woman to be appointed to a sub-Cabinet position. The fact is, Annette Abbott Adams was appointed Assistant Attorney General on June 26, 1920, resigning on Aug. 15, 1921. I am asking you to make this correction in fairness not only to Annette Abbott Adams but to Woodrow Wilson who, rather than Warren Harding, was the first President...
...First: Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney General...
Mabel Walker Willebrandt hopped out of a night plane at Pittsburgh's airport to ask: "Do you know where the nearest beauty shop...
...agents, cops, racketeers, hostesses, parsons, suckers, "clip-joint" proprietors, colyumists. Some of his headliners: "Owney" Madden, Walter Winchell, Jimmy Walker, Barney Gallant, the late John Roach Straton, "Legs" Diamond, "Texas" Guinan, Larry Fay, Florence Mills. Some of the things he recalls: That the Prohibition raids instigated by Mabel Walker Willebrandt in New York cost the Government "at least $75,000," brought in $8,400 in cash and fines. That "the agents kept up the price of liquor. Their extortions, their free drinks and free meals forced the ordinary customer to pay twice what he should have paid for liquor." That...