The Women's National Law Enforcement Committee, with a membership of 1,000, Mrs. Herbert Hoover* as its chairman, allegedly representing 10,000,000 clubwomen in the U. S., held a two days' session in Washington.†
The convention opened with maiden speeches by Attorney General Harlan Fiske Stone, and Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur. There also spoke Prohibition Commissioner Roy Asa Haynes, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt (Assistant U. S. Attorney General), and Novelist Kathleen Norris.
A message from Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., contained this paragraph: "As a member of the National Board of the...
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