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The Dermott News
Dermott, Chicot County, Arkansas
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A $1,000,000 libel suit by ex-prohibition agent Gus O. Nations against ex-Assistant AG Mabel Walker Willebrandt, filed in 1929 over her prohibition articles, was dismissed in St. Louis federal court in 1931 for failure to prosecute due to service issues. Other suits pending; she remarked the action speaks for itself.
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Mr. Nations said he could not proceed any further with the suit because he had been unable to obtain service on Mrs. Willebrandt, but he asserted that suits for $20,000 damages each were pending against her in New York and Washington for alleged injury done to him by the articles.
The only observation of Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt to the news that the $1,000,000 libel suit filed against her by Gus O. Nations had been stricken from the record was: "The action speaks for itself."
(1931, Western Newspaper Union)
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St. Louis
Event Date
1931
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suit stricken from docket for failure to prosecute; suits for $20,000 damages each pending in new york and washington
Event Details
Gus O. Nations, former prohibition agent, filed $1,000,000 libel suit against Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, former assistant attorney general, in 1929 in Federal court at St. Louis over articles on prohibition enforcement. Suit stricken for failure to prosecute due to inability to obtain service on her. Mrs. Willebrandt's response: "The action speaks for itself."