Word: willebrandtized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Taylor Upton to Congresswomen Kahn, Rogers, Norton, Governesses Ross and Ferguson, who are really not leaders of women's movements at all; leaders of "social" movements such as Edith Rockefeller McCormick; leaders who have distinguished themselves in their own professions, such as Judge Florence Allen, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Jane Addams; women who have approached public life from poverty, from the bourgeoisie, from wealth and from social distinction. But one must credit Mrs. Catt with having gone the furthest as a leader of women as women. Despite her advancing age, she is most likely to be named when...
...said here today," declared a news dispatch written as from Mr. Andrews' office, "that before he would undertake to enforce Prohibition with an outfit com- posed of one part fanatics and one part politicians, he would give up his job." The spirit was amplified by Mrs. Mabel W. Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney General in charge of Prohibition cases (a job parallel to Mr. Andrews' in the Treasury Department...
...postponement did not mean abandonment of Mr. Andrews' program. He has two eager allies in the persons of William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, assistant to the Attorney General, and Mrs. Willebrandt. The three are substantially one in purpose. It is supposed to have been Mr. Donovan, a former Army officer of the same type as Mr. Andrews, who induced Mr. Andrews to give up a lucrative civil job for a thankless political...
...dismissals. In Boston, one attorney was summarily removed; and it looks as if her lightning might next strike in New Jersey, where there is at present a furor over enforcement. The new Senator from Massachusetts, William M. Butler, has been looking for a man to fill the Willebrandt-made vacancy...
...inevitable Mrs. Willebrandt...