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...Denver last week convened the International Association of Lions' Clubs. No. 1 speaker: Mrs. Mabel Elizabeth Walker Willebrandt, onetime (1921-29) U. S. Assistant Attorney-General. Said...
Directly in charge of Dry work under Enforcer-in-Chief Mitchell, was Assistant Attorney General Gustav Aaron Young-quist (successor to famed Mabel Walker Willebrandt). When he came into office last year from the attorney generalship of Minnesota, this quiet, practical, tight-mouthed man declared: "I'm a Dry but not a fanatic." Responsible for actual Dry enforcement under Assistant Attorney General Youngquist was Amos Walter Wright Woodcock, appointed director of Prohibition fortnight...
...goods. As U. S. attorney Mr. Woodcock used to leave his apartment on Charles Street every evening at 10 o'clock, walk to the corner drug store, toss down a milk shake, Coca Cola or lime phosphate. Once he set Baltimore tongues to wild wagging by escorting Mrs. Willebrandt to the opera. He failed to convict John Philip Hill, flagrantly Wet onetime Congressman, for public home-brewing in Baltimore...
Appointed by President Coolidge to the U. S. bench in 1925, he has shown inde pendence in his Prohibition decisions, dis agreed violently with Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt's crusading activities. He won the cheers of Conservatives when he re fused to protect with an injunction radicals who were mutilating U. S. stamps with protests against marine intervention in Nicaragua...
...abandoned Department of Justice policy: undercover-men as prisoners spying on wardens. Declared J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the department's Bureau of Investigation: "Our bureau did the work upon the specific orders of the Assistant Attorney General [Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt]. . . . It was very distasteful. . . . That practice is not indulged in at the present time. I have received orders from the present Attorney General...