WOMAN'S RECORD SALARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20306, 13 July 1929, Page 8

WOMAN'S RECORD SALARY.

£IO,OOO A YEAR POST. ' ' COUNSEL TO AIR CONCERN. Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, the first woman Assistant Attorney-General of the United States, has been appointed counsel for the Aviation Corporation of the United States, at Washington, with a salary of £IO,OOO a year. She will therefore resign her post as Assistant Attorney-General in charge of prohibition enforcement. The Aviation Corporation was started in March with an authorised capital of £40,000,000 and Mrs. Willebrandt's salary is stated to bo a record for a .woman. Mrs. Willebrandt was born in Kansas and her father and mother were school teachers leading a wandering existence from town to town in the Middle West in the early nineties. During her term in office the eyes of Broadway—if not the entiro country — were turned toward Washington when in September of last year Federal prohibition agents swept down on the night clubs of New York and secured indictments against a number of society hostesses and night, club patrons, many of whom were called before a grand jury to be questioned. The raids and investigations were mado at her instigation. Working in extraordinarily difficult circumstances she achieved in this offito remarkable success, her record never having been bettered by any of her male predecessors. President Hoover has attributed her achievements to "legal ability and moral courage." Her new task will be to make a comprehensive survey of national and Statu laws as affecting the aviation industry. Mrs. Willebrandt shares in the universal opinion prevailing in New York that America is on the threshold of a rapid expansion of air traffic and adds that, in order to promote every phase of aeronautical advance, while safeguarding individual enterprises and investors, it is necessary to secure uniformity and stability in the law and its procedure. ==============