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...Mabel Walker Willebrandt was a 19-year-old school teacher of lumberjacks' children in Buckley, Mich., soon to marry the school superintendent and nurse him in Arizona...
Thus, a third time, did Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney-General of the U. S., do-her-bit for Hooverism before an audience of Ohio Protestants. The evening after delivering her message to the Methodists at Lorain (TIME, Oct. 1), she visited a Presbyterian men's club at Warren. A long quotation about Tammany Hall corruption a generation ago was part of the speech. She had looked it up in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. She cried...
...even growls among the "practical" element of the G. O. P. Senator Moses, himself no scorner of cocktails, said he had received "plenty" of letters protesting about Worker Willebrandt. The arch-Democratic New York World turned, of course, from anger to glee and redoubled its editorial sniping at "Mabel" and "sectarianism." More serious was a cartoon published broadcast by the pro-Hoover Scripps-Howard newspaper chain, showing a church daubed with "Politix" and the G. O. P. spanking a naughty child. The caption was "Give this little girl a great big hand...
Methodists. The vehemence of her cry, the importance of her position in the federal government, rather than the national importance of the gathering she addressed, have lent notoriety to Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt's earnest charge to 2,000 Methodist ministers in convention at Springfield, Ohio (TIME, Sept. 24). "Take to your pulpits!" was her cry. "Preach that message! Rouse your communities! The [enforcement] issue is bigger than party lines." As everyone knows, Mrs. Willebrandt is Assistant Attorney General of the U. S. Her speech was not repudiated by Methodist Bishops...
Last year, a crisis came in the affairs of the Stockbridge art colony. Spinster Mabel Choate bought the property on which the Casino stood, and proposed to erect a memorial to her famed father, Lawyer-Ambassador Joseph Hodges Choate. She offered the Casino to anyone who would cart it away...