Word: willebrandtized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lorain, Ohio, Assistant Attorney General Willebrandt addressed a second assemblage of Methodists, larger than the audience that heard and cheered her last month at Springfield, Ohio. Cried...
Prohibition, which it is Mrs. Willebrandt's sworn duty and, intellectual passion to help enforce, was of course the sole burden of the Willebrandt oration to the Methodists. But she had laid herself open to Democratic charges of religious incendiarism. What would Hooverism have said if a Smith supporter, let alone a public official, should cry out for an anti-Hoover uprising of Roman Catholics...
...Willebrandt's Ohio speech was handed out for circulation at the national Hoover headquarters with the explanation that Hooverism was not officially responsible for anything Mrs. Willebrandt might say. Senator Borah, one of Hooverism's biggest voices, was invited to address a Methodist gathering at Peoria, Ill. He declined. Mrs. Willebrandt's name was left off Hooverism's official list of campaign speeches for the near future and it was stated that the next Willebrandt speech would not be distributed from official headquarters...
...there was no official repudiation of "Take to your pulpits!," a cry which may well become an historic feature of the Presidential campaign of 1928. And there was no visible squelching of Worker Willebrandt. She promised to appear and speak again in Ohio, on Sept. 23 at Lorain. Clear-eyed, evangelical, she said: "I shall continue ... as my conscience dictates...
...photographed at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. It was obvious that Mr. Golding wanted to give Philadelphia's 'leggers an even break. People said it was because Philadelphia is Republican and too many discoveries there might be embarrassing to Mr. Golding's superior, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney General. As everyone knows, Mrs. Willebrandt is a Hooverizer of almost reckless intensity...