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...friendly" receiver was appointed. American Bond & Mortgage financed apartments, hotels and office buildings, usually kept the common stock of these buildings. Its financing of Washington's big Mayflower Hotel (in which Halsey, Stuart & Co. participated) was under Congressional discussion. Last week five Mayflower bondholders, with Mabel Walker Willebrandt as attorney, obtained a receiver for the hotel...
...with the help of the blundering Work, the undercover Mann, the flaming Willebrandt, the thundering Borah, the uprighteous Hughes. With upturned eyes he ignored the tempestuous issue of Religion breaking at his feet. On Prohibition he said nothing. He preached a gospel of "American individualism," promised a "job for every man," grew rhapsodic over "the home," vowed that only his election could perpetuate Republican prosperity. One might have thought he was running against thin air for all the notice he took of the energetic, loud-speaking, issue-raising, far-traveling Brown Derby. His cautious, banal campaign was unsatisfying to those...
What put these Dry sessions on the front pages of the public prints was not their routine doings but the sudden appearance of Mrs. Mabel Elizabeth Walker Willebrandt, onetime (1921-29) U. S. Assistant Attorney General in charge of Prohibition. She had come to defend her new occupation as counsel for Fruit Industries, Inc. (TIME, Oct. 20). Because of her connection with this firm selling a grape juice concentrate easily convertible into wine, Drys have eyed Mrs. Willebrandt as a backslider in their Cause. After first refusing to hear her, the Temperance Council finally cracked open its doors...
Afterward Dry leaders came trooping out, satisfied that Mrs. Willebrandt was still one of them, though they squelched every news attempt to find out just what she had said. Their efforts to keep her self-defense secret were futile, however, because the week before she had stated her case in a letter to her friend Mrs. Mary R. Haslup, president of the Maryland W. C. T. U., who had given it to the Press. Excerpts...
...That there still is some doubt about the Hoover Administration's attitude toward home-fermented wine was further indicated last week when Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, onetime Dry prosecutor for the U. S., announced she would insist upon a clear statement from Washington. She is attorney for Fruit Industries Inc. (TIME...