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...days later, quizzed again on the Willebrandt matter as he emerged from Nominee Hoover's office, Dr. Work said: "I am chairman of the Republican National Committee and I have conferences every day with Mr. Hoover...
...Chicago, which seemed to be Mrs. Willebrandt's base of operations, the subject grew exciting when she appeared in town and registered at the Blackstone Hotel. She would see no one, until after a two-hour conference with James William Good, Hooverizer of the West, and Walter Newton, Chairman of the G. O. P. Speaker's Bureau. Emerging she was asked point-blank what her auspices were...
...Newton squared off and replied: "Mrs. Willebrandt certainly has been speaking under the auspices of the Speaker's Bureau of the Republican National Committee...
...that settled that. In Washington, Nominee Hoover repeated to the newsmen that he "would rather not discuss" the matter at all. A Southern speaking tour was arranged for Mrs. Willebrandt, on Nominee Hoover's heels through Tennessee later this month. She was also scheduled to speak next week at a State convention of the W. C. T. U. in Kokomo, Ind. Mrs. Willebrandt returned to her duties as Assistant Attorney General in special charge of Volstead violations. While she deplored the position she found herself in, she said: "I suppose it is inevitable. I am sort of a personification...
...Willebrandt was not alone in the public eye. Newshawks penetrated to the village of Lomita, suburb of Los Angeles, to interview and photograph a schoolteacher named Arthur F. Willebrandt, 40 years old, with a pompadour. Court records show that Arthur F. Willebrandt divorced "M. Elizabeth Willebrandt" in 1925. The disguised name was Mrs. Willebrandt's idea. Mr. Willebrandt's grounds were amicable. He charged desertion after they had been separated some eight years. She did not contest the suit...