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...inevitable Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assistant U. S. Attorney General, spoke on Prohibition. General Pershing made a brief, soldierly plea for military training. Sir Esme Howard paid tribute to Lincoln. M. Jules Jusserand reflected on his life in the U. S. President Coolidge asked women to vote...
...convention opened with maiden speeches by Attorney General Harlan Fiske Stone, and Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur. There also spoke Prohibition Commissioner Roy Asa Haynes, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt (Assistant U. S. Attorney General), and Novelist Kathleen Norris...
This aphorism was followed by a tense talk from Mrs. Willebrandt. She complained that "women play bridge at their clubs instead of studying the qualifications of candidates for public office. They dodge indorsements and decisions on public questions for fear dissension will rupture their social group and they will be accused of being 'political.' They are dodging a clear duty. . . . Corruption in high places is revolting, but the condition that will prove fatal to this country is lethargy in local government; deterioration and graft in the police force of your city; leniency and political pull in state...
...worry, except socially, over the formidable "grandmothers with a purpose." But in spite of this exuberance of outlook, the conference presents a creditable list of women actively participating. Mrs. Herbert Hoover will be Chairman; Mrs. Robert Lansing, Secretary. The speakers scheduled include Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt (Assistant Attorney General), Major Roy Asa Haynes (National Prohibition Chief), Senator Frank B. Willis...
...Mabel W. Willebrandt, Assistant U. S. Attorney General, spoke on prohibition in Boston, saying: "The 'upper crust' which 'feels itself above and superior to the law, and the 'dregs' who strike beneath the foundations of American liberties? these two classes exist everywhere, especially in Boston, where the oldest families . . . violate...