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Many a wife is a compliment, no complement to her husband. Mrs. Mabel Brady Garvan is both to her Francis Patrick Garvan. She, daughter of the late very wealthy Anthony N. Brady, sister of Nicholas Frederic Brady (Anaconda Copper, gas & electric utilities, Chrysler Motors), chose him when he was a vigorous, powerful assistant district attorney in New York City.* He was her brother-in-law, brother of Nicholas F. Brady's wife Genevieve Garvan Brady. And ever since she has worked, sometimes behind him, usually beside him, never before him, always with him-through his private management of their...
...Secretary of State, the Hon. Jim Vance, President and publisher of the Fellowship Forum; for Secretary of the Treasury, the Hon. F. Scott McBride, Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League; for Secretary of Labor, Bishop James Cannon Jr., of the Methodist Church South; for Attorney General, the Hon. Mabel Willebrandt; for Postmaster General, the Hon. Billy Sunday; for Secretary of the Navy, the Hon. Hiram Wesley Evans, Imperial Wizard of the K. K. K.; for Secretary of the Interior, the Hon. Ella A. Boole, National President of the W. C. T. U.; for Secretary of Agriculture...
...much the smugglers and their customers spend is a matter for guesswork. But Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, U. S. Assistant Attorney-General, was able to put a figure, in her annual report, on at least one item-$18,883,541 worth (Canadian value) of Canadian whiskies exported to the U. S. in 1928. Previous years: 1925, 10.7 millions; 1926, 15.4 millions; 1927, 17.1 millions...
...Cresco, Pa., daughter of a late Bronx insurance examiner; in Kunkletown, Pa. In 1897 Mr. Kresge married Anna E. Harvey of Memphis; she divorced him in 1924, obtained a $10,000,000 settlement for herself, $5,000,000 for each of their five children. In 1924 Mr. Kresge married Mabel D. Mercer of Pittsburgh, daughter of Capt. George A. Mercer, onetime partner of Andrew Carnegie. Last February she divorced him, obtained a settlement of about $10,000,000. Mr. Kresge's fortune has been estimated...
Newsgathering curiosity was further piqued by the arrival at Palo Alto, just after Col. Donovan got there, of that other equally famed Assistant Attorney-General, Mrs. Mabel Elizabeth Walker Willebrandt, "personification of Prohibition." In view of the Hoover promise to appoint a commission to investigate the "grave abuses" now suffered by the "experiment noble in motive," newsgathering speculation ran to unanswered questions like this: Was the President-Elect asking Mrs. Willebrandt to tell Col. Donovan all she knew about Prohibition so that the redoubtable Colonel could make plans for stricter enforcement? Or was this conference preliminary to a great "Hoover...