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Flowers, newsmen and a hard job followed on the heels of a White House messenger who, just eight years ago, handed a certificate to a fresh-faced young California woman at the Department of Justice in Washington. The certificate showed that President Harding had appointed Mabel Walker Willebrandt to be Assistant U. S. Attorney-General in charge of prison conditions, tax cases, Prohibition prosecution. Prohibition was barely a year and a half old. With three assistants Mrs. Willebrandt's division was the Department's smallest. That year saw 10,000 Prohibition arrests. In the field were...
...months ago, worn, tired, looking at least ten years older, Mrs. Willebrandt resigned her office. Her division, with 100 assistants, was the Department's largest. Close to 10,000 U. S. agents (Prohibition, Customs, Coast Guard) were in the field and at sea working to enforce Prohibition, on Congressional appropriations of approximately $20,000,000 per year. Arrests averaged 75,000 per year, with about 70,000 cases turned over to Mrs. Willebrandt for prosecution. Government was getting convictions in about 75% of the cases tried. Instead of dwindling on the horizon as a political and moral issue, Prohibition...
This month Mrs. Willebrandt, private citizen, has been telling what she knows about Prohibition. Her articles, syndicated by Publicist David Lawrence's alert Current News Features, Inc., have been appearing in the New York Times, Chicago Daily News, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Cleveland Plain Dealer & many another. Following is a synopsis of her revelations, remedies, sentiments...
General Thesis. Mrs. Willebrandt believes that: 1) Prohibition is not effectively enforced; 2) Prohibition can be effectively enforced; 3) Imperfect as it is, Prohibition has materially lessened liquor...
Politics is "the greatest handicap in the enforcement of Prohibition . . . most responsible for its failures." Observed Mrs. Willebrandt: "Politics and liquor are as inseparable a combination as beer and pretzels." Though she did not name the late great Boies Penrose, she cited the fact that $250,000 in cash was found in a safe deposit box on his death and insinuated that this was "dirty money" for the political manipulation of Prohibition enforcement in Pennsylvania. She recalled appeals made by politicians for such prominent convicted 'leggers as George Remus (Cincinnati) and the La Montagne brothers (Manhattan). Declared Mrs. Willebrandt...