While Engineer-President Hoover was designing the machinery of his forthcoming law enforcement investigation the U. S. last week was adjusting itself to the new Jones Act. This law has been professionally nicknamed the Five & Ten by virtue of its five-year penitentiary sentence and $10,000 fine to stiffen Prohibition punishments.
¶The U.S. Drys, Consolidated, last week nominated the "Personification of Prohibition,"* Mrs. Mabel Elizabeth Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney General, to take charge of enforcement following its projected transfer from the Treasury to the Department of Justice. The Christian Herald opened her campaign under the caption: "TO DRY UP AMERICA: MABEL WALKER...
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