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...consent of the White House, to provide President Hoover with a neat, complete "out" from the Prohibition controversy. As "proof" of this fabulous theory, the theorists pointed to the speed with which Attorney General Mitchell sent the case to the Supreme Court. Henri Mouquin, 93, famed oldtime Manhattan wine merchant and restaurateur, was "electrified" by the decision, wired from his Virginia retreat to his sons to prepare to get back into business...
...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 to her, closed it again, listened for two hours while she used all her legal and oratorical talents explaining, declaiming, answering questions about...
...cubic yards of dirt and poured 12,000 cubic metres of concrete at Cheliabinsk since last July) waiting angrily for steel to erect the world's largest tractor factory. . . . Three hundred and eighty U. S. machinists making tractors in Stalingrad at a wage of $10 daily with cognac, wine and beer abundant...
...literally a dream, to accuse her of being asleep. "You are asleep with your eyes not quite closed, slits of white showing." Caroline invariably admits the truth of his suave impeachment but to date (aetat. 60) has done nothing much about it except call for madder music, stronger wine. At last, however, she retires to a New England cottage to write her reminiscences, get them off her mind. Then she will go some other place, do something else...
...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...