Word: mabel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Willebrandt v. Hoover? On Capitol Hill, Senator Borah busied himself collecting data to support his charge against the Prohibition enforcement personnel "from top to bottom." Audible at the White House was a rumor that none other than Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, with a grudge against the Department of Justice and Attorney-General Mitchell, was supplying Senator Borah with his evidence for further assaults upon the Hoover administration's Dry record...
Senator William Edgar Borah, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee and a great Soviet protagonist, acted more directly. Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, onetime Assistant Attorney-General, now Washington attorney for The Aviation Corp. which owns Alaskan Airways, begged him to intercede. He cabled to Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs at Moscow. At once the Russians, eager to repeat their glory of rescuing the wrecked Italia crew, ordered out three planes stationed within flying distance of Eielson's disappearance. They also telegraphed and radioed Siberian outposts to send out sledge parties...
...number of other strong-minded ladies then thought necessary and honorable-picketing Woodrow Wilson in the White House. Dr. John Rogers, famed Manhattan surgeon, college mate (Yale '87) of Mr. Stimson (Yale '88), went and bailed out his wife. Lawyer Stimson and his wife, who was Mabel of the famed New Haven, Conn., sisters White, had to admire their sister's courage...
...Jolson. Estimated royalties were upward of $750,000, of which Warner Bros, received not a cent. Warner Bros, learned a lesson, purchased Witmarks Inc. for approximately $5,000,000.* Radio Corp. seemed last week to have learned that lesson too. A contracted composer for Leo Feist, Inc. is Mabel Wayne, composer of "Ramona," and considered the best Feist music writer. Confidently last week cinemen predicted that RKO Productions, Inc. would soon produce a sound movie with a Wayne theme song. And, they pointed out, royalties from the sale of copies and records would go not only to Fischer and Feist...
...Pete was the first and only legitimate child of his mother Mabel, an Ojibway Indian girl of northern Michigan. Later he had a sister and two brothers. When Mabel's husband deserted her, she was glad that she would no longer be beaten, then wondered how she would support her baby. For a while she managed, by weaving baskets and selling them to summer tourists. Then she cooked for a logging camp. Then she took men. Joe Pete grew, watched what was going on loved his mother, took care of the other children, said nothing. When the Lithuanian Jaakkola...