MABLE WALKER WILLEBRANDT.

White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 376, 18 November 1926, Page 13

MABLE WALKER WILLEBRANDT.

One of the best known lH*st loved, and liest hated women in the TJ.S.A. is this fine woman lawyer. She spoke at W.C.T.V. Conventions, and the following is taken from an American paper:— Then that outstanding woman in America's civic life, Mable Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney-Gene-ral of the I'nited States. "She who han lies the big cases in one of the most important divisions of the I’nited States i)ei>artment of Justice, including the enforcement of the Prohibition laws and taxes, having in charge all litigation arising in the 88 Kederal districts of the I’nited States and island possessions. •‘When Mrs Willebrandt, one of the youngest women lawyers in the counry, won a 46,600,000d01. suit for the iovernment, and smashed the largest Hum King’ in the South, it was an •vent of national importance in the innals of American jurisprudence. “She is the star of first magnitude of he law enforcement horizon, as she las kept up a steady drive, exposing md indicting ring after ring. All of uliich hat. taken great courage, great Persistence, and incalculable energy. “While Mrs Willebrandt has spoken t National W.C.T I’. Conventions in iher sections, this will be her first peech in this State possibly in the iouth, but that ‘Hum King once at •avannah knows that it will not c lh* the rst time her influence has been exrted for Prohibition in Georgia and the outh. “Her official activities in regard to 'inhibition enforcement have earned >r her the titles -The Nemesis of the ootleggers—Uncle Sum’s Chief Worm Sleuth— Heroine of a Hundred egal flatties —A Doughty Portia.’*