Word: willebrandtized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Washington waited to see what Hoover headquarters would do about one of Hooverism's most tireless workers, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney General of the U. S. Already accused of using her Federal office for political ends, she went into Ohio last fortnight and persuaded a Methodist convention at Springfield to abandon Methodism's traditional nonpartisanship and resolve against Nominee Smith, for Nominee Hoover...
...liquorous Manhattan night clubs were Federally raided at the very moment Governor Smith of New York was being nominated for the Presidency (TIME, July 9). The raids continued, prosecutions began and the fact came out that the Manhattan mop-up had been personally planned by Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, U. S. Assistant Attorney General. Much of able Mrs. Willebrandt's energy has been exerted this year towards getting Mr. Hoover nominated and elected. "Politics! Dirty politics!" was a convincing...
...said Democrats, "Mr. Hoover has sat upon Mrs. Willebrandt. He has told her her zeal must not go too far or in the wrong direction. New York is the biggest of the States, and hard enough to Hooverize, without annoying it. Mr. Hoover has thanked Mrs. Willebrandt and he has also 'spanked...
Indignant, Mrs. Willebrandt spoke up for herself. "It is preposterous," she said, "that Mr. Hoover or any other candidate for a high and dignified office such as the Presidency of the United States would presume to control a public officer in the discharge of official duties. Mr. Hoover has not done so and would not do so. The conduct of my official duties was not discussed with Mr. Hoover...
Meantime, forestalling Senate action, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assistant U. S. Attorney General, spurred a Grand Jury investigation of Mississippi's postmasters, 75 of whom were summoned last week to Biloxi to be scrutinized. As everyone knows, Mississippi's Negro Republicans, headed by National Committeeman Perry W. Howard, control their fair share of the South's 25,000 Federal jobs, which aggregate $35,000,000 per annum in salaries. Indictments began, arrests followed for "purchase and sale of public offices...