Word: willebrandtized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only 40 pages long, therefore comes closer to be Jonathan's account of David than Boswell's account of Johnson. It is campaign literature in the sense that it is wholly favorable to the Democratic candidate, but it is not campaign literature in the sense that the writings of Willebrandt or Heflin or the vaporings of Dr. Stratton are. Mr. Roosevelt says nothing, or hardly anything of the Republicans. In straightforward language, he merely recounts the record of Al Smith, with some slight interpretation...
Mabel Walker Willebrandt was a 19-year-old school teacher of lumberjacks' children in Buckley, Mich., soon to marry the school superintendent and nurse him in Arizona...
Thus, a third time, did Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney-General of the U. S., do-her-bit for Hooverism before an audience of Ohio Protestants. The evening after delivering her message to the Methodists at Lorain (TIME, Oct. 1), she visited a Presbyterian men's club at Warren. A long quotation about Tammany Hall corruption a generation ago was part of the speech. She had looked it up in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. She cried...
Methodists. The vehemence of her cry, the importance of her position in the federal government, rather than the national importance of the gathering she addressed, have lent notoriety to Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt's earnest charge to 2,000 Methodist ministers in convention at Springfield, Ohio (TIME, Sept. 24). "Take to your pulpits!" was her cry. "Preach that message! Rouse your communities! The [enforcement] issue is bigger than party lines." As everyone knows, Mrs. Willebrandt is Assistant Attorney General of the U. S. Her speech was not repudiated by Methodist Bishops...
Lutherans. Less spectacular, not as good copy as Mrs. Willebrandt's politocsin, but able to knock the Democratic campaign among Lutherans to Smithereens is the National Lutheran Editors' Association, whose media reach two million readers. Apropos of the campaign the editors voted to tell their readers that the Catholic Church requires of its members allegiance to a "foreign sovereign." (TIME, Sept...