Word: willebrandtized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such warnings of cattle-herding in U. S. prisons provoked no action in official Washington. Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, for eight years the Assistant Attorney-General responsible for prison conditions as well as Prohibition and tax cases, spent more time worrying about the conduct of Federal wardens than prodding Presidents Harding and Coolidge to get more cells built...
Responsible for the President's program was Sanford Bates, U. S. Superintendent of Prisons, selected as a man of "advanced ideas" by Mrs. Willebrandt shortly before her retirement last spring. For ten years Mr. Bates was Massachusetts' Commissioner of Correction, fought many a fight to modernize that State's penal system. No sentimentalist, he believes in prison reform, rehabilitation of society's sick-minded. One of his methods for relieving U. S. prison congestion is to increase paroles, now limited by the scarcity of probation officers. President Hoover last week promised him more of these officers...
...last week Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, onetime (1921-29) Assistant Attorney General in charge of Prohibition, began a series of articles for a newspaper syndicate led by the Wet New York Times. After eight years' experience, she prepared to say whether Prohibition was enforceable, whether it could be made popular, who was to blame for its nonenforcement et al. Excerpts...
Sirs: I am forced to rise in protest because or a statement in TIME (June 24), Page 46 " . . [Mrs. Willebrandt] was a passenger on the first transcontinental rail-air-rail service. . . . Universal. . . ." Our company, the S. A. F. E. Airlines, began transcontinental air-rail service the same day Universal Air Lines began their cross-U. S. operations. Passengers leaving New York on June 14 by train and Los Angeles by plane, boarded our ships the morning of June 15 at St. Louis and Sweetwater, Tex., respectively, and completed their transcontinental journeys the following day. . . . This ends the protest. The letter...
...Last week a farewell dinner party was given in the White House. Guest of honor: Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt. Occasion: her retirement as Assistant Attorney General in charge of prohibition...