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...warnings of Grover Aloysius Whalen, New York police chief (TIME, May 12) and of Pope Pius XI against Soviet activities in the U. S., there were added last week, in a release by the National Civic Federation, a warning and an exhortation from no less a personage than Elder Statesman Elihu Root, onetime (1905-09) Secretary of State. Said...
Albert Carroll satirically skewered Chinese Actor Mei Lan-fang with elaborate gesture and thin, cracked voice. Another famed actor taken up was Grover Aloysius ("Gardenia") Whalen, who lately returned to Wanamaker's department store from the Police Commissionership of New York. Sings he (Philip Loeb...
...Rothstein murder case (TIME, Dec. 24, 1928), New York City's popular, publicity-loving Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker chose not a criminologist but a capable diverter of public opinion to be police commissioner. It was his longtime official greeter of distinguished guests, efficient and immaculate Grover Aloysius ("Gardenia") Whalen, general manager of Wanamaker's Department Store...
Twenty-five hundred citizens of New York City last week attended a testimonial dinner, to Grover Aloysius Whalen for his work as the city's Police Commissioner. The morning before the banquet Mr. Whalen went to Police Headquarters as usual to attend the daily "lineup" of suspected criminals before the detective force. Two police detectives, Frederick Opperman, 25, and John Foran, 34, reluctantly mounted the little stage. The charge against them was that they had tried to extort $25 from the proprietor of a small speakeasy on Staten Island...
Backed by the goodwill of many a potent, impeccable U. S. corporation with whom he deals in millions, bold Board Chairman Peter Alexeivich Bogdanov of Amtorg actually dared last week to sug gest that he will sue sleek Grover Aloysius ("Gardenia") Whalen, Police Commissioner of New York. If Red Bogdanov succeeds in silencing Mr. Whalen, "ruble diplomacy" will have won its outstanding victory thus far, for the Commissioner charged last week nothing less than that Amtorg is a backer, political and financial, of organized Communist agitation in the U. S., that Amtorg in short is helping to foment "the World...