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...million-dollar libel suit last week threatened Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt just when her bank balance was beginning to fatten on the proceeds of her series of newspaper articles on "The Inside of Prohibition" (TIME,, Aug. 12 et seq.). In an instalment which flayed the meddlesomeness of the Anti-Saloon League, she trod on the tender toe of a onetime Prohibition enforcement chief at St. Louis...
Wrote Mrs. Willebrandt: "It was charged that Heber Nations' part in the conspiracy was to keep the brewery advised, through his brother Gus, then chief prohibition officer in St. Louis, when it would be safe to run out the forbidden brew...
Agents. Politics caused the appointment as Dry Agents of unfit, untrained men "as devoid of integrity and honesty as the bootlegging fraternity." Most of them, said Mrs. Willebrandt, were of the "ward heeler type." "The Government is committing a crime against the public when it pins a badge of police authority on and hands a gun to a man of uncertain character, limited intelligence or without giving systematic training." Mrs. Willebrandt condemned "as atrocious, wholly unwarranted and entirely unnecessary some of the killing by prohibition agents." But she argued that 'leggers are often desperate characters; she cited the case...
Officials. In Mrs. Willebrandt's mind more to be condemned than the agents have been Washington officials in charge of Prohibition enforcement. Said she: "It will take many a day for law enforcement to recover from the setback it suffered under General Lincoln Andrews. . . . He multiplied publicity, created a public psychology in his own favor . . . began to put in office men who were temperamentally and in every other way unfitted for the task. His notorious appointments . . . Roscoe Harper . . . Frank Hale. . .Major Walton Green . . . Ned M. Green. . . . I refuse to believe that out of our 100,000,000 population...
...General Andrews served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of Prohibition from 1925 to 1927. Last fortnight he declined to comment on Mrs. Willebrandt's attack, explained he now never discusses Prohibition...