Word: willebrandtized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President appointed Gustav Aaron Youngquist of Minnesota to Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt's old post in the Department of Justice...
Also among the 4,000 present were good-golfing U. S. Attorney General William DeWitt Mitchell, Wilson-praising Newton Diehl Baker, unpolitical Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, law-enforcing George Woodward Wickersham, Dean William Draper Lewis of the Pennsylvania Law School, Mexican-born Severe Mallet-Pre-vost, Emory Roy Buckner, Charles Seymour Whitman, George Wharton Pepper...
...Griesedieck brewery was raided by me upon information furnished me by my brother Heber. . . . When faced with the necessity of prosecuting the brewery officials caught in my raid, she [Mrs. Willebrandt] protected them by releasing 44 men caught redhanded and prosecuted the citizen who made the raid possible. ... At the trial of my brother she challenged every prospective juror .... who believed in Prohibition. . . . When challenged by counsel for the defendant [Heber Nations] to accuse me if she dared, she sat silent...
Shrewd lawyer that she is, Mrs. Willebrandt continued silent last week, waited to answer Brother Gus in court. Points made during the week in her continuing articles on "The Inside of Prohibition" included...
Some grape-growing industrialists resent the activity of vineyardists who sell their juice for winemaking. To the Federal Farm Board last week they sent as their representative Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, onetime Assistant U. S. Attorney-General, to explain such "questionable practices," to try to induce the Board to withhold loans to growers who attempt to evade the intent of Prohibition. Farm Board Chairman Legge explained that his Board had nothing to do with Prohibition...