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...they could agree on religious tolerance and Prohibition. "I do wish they'd give us a rest in the discussions about Mrs. Willebrandt," said Mr. Burton. Said Mr. Baker: "When Mrs. Firebrand from Washington gets into a ministers' meeting and flails the energies of the pastors to go into the pulpits . . . I don't wonder that Congressman Burton and others pray to be delivered from...
...Arthur F. Willebrandt was superintendent of a high school in Buckley, Mich. Mabel Elizabeth Walker was a girl of 21, teaching lumberjacks' children in the Buckley primary school. She had gone to Michigan with her parents from Kansas, where she was born in a sod hut on the prairie...
Soon after the wedding, Mr. Willebrandt's lungs necessitated a move to Arizona. Mrs. Willebrandt nursed him and did all the housework. She had vitality enough left over to take a normal school course in Tempe. After his health returned, she left him. She became a school superintendent in Los Angeles and studied law at the University of Southern California. Her reputation grew with her work as Public Defender of Los Angeles-charity advocate for beaten wives and fallen women...
...scouring the country for a woman lawyer to put into his sub-Cabinet, President Harding heard about Mrs. Willebrandt in such glowing terms as only California's Senator Hiram Johnson knows how to use. President Harding feared she was "too young" (32 years) but appointed...
...hard on Congressmen as on the rest. Her lack of sympathy for the politics of Prohibition embarrassed the G. O. P. in the 1924 campaign. Now she is "the personification of Prohibition." Few Senators are sufficiently "noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose" to approve putting Mrs. Willebrandt on a bench of justice...