Word: willebrandtized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mabel Willebrandt lives down in Washington...
Thus concluded the contest between two famed Modern Women. The other woman, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assistant U. S. Attorney General, was asked in Washington if she would drop her other night club cases. Mrs. Willebrandt retorted: "Does that sound like...
Said Mrs. Willebrandt: "The [snoop] system seems the only way at present to find the facts necessary to keep conditions wholesome in the penitentiaries. It [snooping] has been' fairly and equitably'applied...
...Drys, Consolidated, last week nominated the "Personification of Prohibition,"* Mrs. Mabel Elizabeth Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney General, to take charge of enforcement following its projected transfer from the Treasury to the Department of Justice. The Christian Herald opened her campaign under the caption: "TO DRY UP AMERICA: MABEL WALKER WILLEBRANDT." Dr. Daniel A. Poling, the Christian Herald's editor, declared that "every prohibitionist in the U. S. . . . will experience disappointment and regret" if this "remarkable woman" is allowed to retire. He called her "the first figure in the whole field of law observance and law enforcement...
Seconding the nomination of Mrs. Willebrandt in the Christian Herald were: Bishop Thomas Nicholson, Anti-Saloon League president; F. Scott McBride, Anti-Saloon League superintendent; Raymond Robbins. "personal friend of Herbert Hoover"; Mrs. Ella Alexander Boole, W. C. T. U. president; Chairman Fred B. Smith of the Citizens Committee of 1,000; Edwin C. Dinwiddie, secretary of the National Conference of Organizations Supporting the 18th Amendment, and many another...