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...Washington he was reported to have hired Mabel Walker Willebrandt to adjust his case with the Treasury Department. When these overtures failed, he was said to have offered $150,000 to Treasury representatives if they would drop prosecution...
...will accept after March 4. Other eminent G. 0. Politicians with Shoreham offices: Everett Sanders, chairman of the Republican National Committee; Ray Benjamin, Hoover adviser from California; Edward Tracy ("Ted") Clark, Coolidge secretary; Col. William Joseph ("Wild Bill'') Donovan, onetime Assistant to the Attorney General; Mabel Walker Willebrandt. onetime Assistant Attorney General. Owner Hurley will have a 16-room suite in his building where he will practice law with an as yet unnamed Washington partner...
...Einson of Long Island City, L. I., went vacationing in the West Indies, leaving behind him a business which had increased its payroll 250% since last summer, was making 3,000,000 jigsaw puzzles a week, and had become so prosperous that it could retain smart Lawyer Mabel Walker Willebrandt to fight the Government's contention that it owed a tax of 10% under the new amusement excise...
Last week Mrs. Willebrandt was working hard to defeat the Government's contention that a puzzle of over 50 pieces is no child's game, should pay the 10% wholesale tax on adult amusements. Most puzzles are 150-500 pieces. Her argument: no matter who plays with them, or how many pieces they contain, jigsaw puzzles are childish, picayune, taxfree...
...shouted in oldtime style, "Now we'll go after them," the cheering, laughing crowd knew what to expect. They got it. Out of four years of bitterness came raucous, fist-smashing denunciations of bigotry and Ku-Kluxery, a long tirade against that almost forgotten woman Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, plenty of "What happened? . . . Let's take a look. . . . Let us go back. . . ." An Al Smith occasion and an Al Smith speech in less than his most thoughtful vein, it accomplished one thing for his party: claiming credit for the Democratic wet plank, he placed it squarely against...