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...great reputation for personal heroism, returned from France with his mud-splashed tunic heavy with medals. As U. S. District Attorney at Buffalo, he was drastic enough to lose some friends locally but to be called to Washington to assist the Attorney General. For three years with Mabel Walker Willebrandt, he practically ran the Department of Justice over the hulking shoulder of easy-going John Garibaldi Sargent. He climbed on the Hoover bandwagon early, rode it hard and helpfully through the campaign, expected as his reward the Attorney Generalship. When that post went to another. Colonel Donovan's friends bitterly...
...same magazine was galvanic. He ordered the arrest of 150 newsdealers, six of whom were to be tried this week. In partial defense against the obscenity charge Publisher George T. Delacorte Jr. could point to a list of unsolicited subscribers to Ballyhoo including the Metropolitan Club, Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Deputy U. S. Attorney John Hayes, the U. S. Consul at Istanbul, the secretary of the U. S. Legation at Cairo...
...Although it is no cheaper to subscribe than to buy each issue, and early announcements definitely urged readers not to subscribe, some 4,000 subscriptions were received. Among the subscribers: Julius Rosenwald, Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Truman Handy Newberry. Dr. Julius Klein, Norman Bel Geddes, Admiral Arthur Lee Willard...
...flourishing business of urban wine-making in the home. Karl Offer, national manager of Vino Sano, wired Attorney General Mitchell from California that he alone was responsible for the wine bricks and wanted to be included in any forthcoming indictments. He also sought the legal assistance of Mrs. Willebrandt, Vine-Glo's counsel, in working up a defense for his employes, but that lady enigmatically replied: "Sorry, but I never take Prohibition cases...
Last month a minority Mayflower interest, led by Mabel Walker Willebrandt, managed to put the hotel into receivership (TIME, June 1). Last week a higher court took it out again only after receivers had reported a shocking state of financial affairs. The hotel company filed suit for heavy punitive damages against the minority stockholders on the ground that the hotel's reputation had been damaged and its credit impaired...