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...Candidate Smith and his friends rejoiced in another occurrence, near Brooklyn. Borough President Connolly of Queens, whom Governor Smith ordered investigated for alleged sewer grafting, resigned from office...
...lead the A. A. P. A.'s countercampaign against what has been called the "supergovernment" of the Anti-Saloon League, the A. A. P. A. installed an executive in a newly created position of president. The new man is Major Henry Hastings Curran, able lawyer, onetime (1920-21) Borough President of Manhattan, onetime (1923-26) U. S. Commissioner of Immigration at Ellis Island, N. Y. Major Curran will be the lieutenant of Captain William H. Stayton, who remains Chairman of the A. A. P. A. Board of Directors...
...borough of Queens has had for its president since 1911 a corpulent Irish-American, Maurice E. Connolly, whose father used to hoe corn and dig potatoes where all is apartment buildings, pavements and sewers today. President Connolly, next-to-youngest in a family of eight, climbed to fame by willing work for the politicians whom he found in power when he emerged from the public schools and Columbia University's law department...
...margin no wider than desirable, the U. S. last week escaped a replica (with variations) of the Sacco-Vanzetti case. In the Bronx (outlying borough of New York City) a jury acquitted one Calogero Greco and one Donate Carillo of the murders of one Joseph Carisi and one Nicholas Amoroso last Memorial Day. The Messrs. Carisi and Amoroso, members of the Fascist League of America, had been on their way to join Fascist comrades in a parade. The Messrs. Greco and Carillo, hot antiFascists, were alleged to have set upon them at the foot of an elevated railway staircase...
...margin no wider than desirable, the U. S. last week escaped a replica (with variations) of the Sacco-Vanzetti case. In the Bronx (outlying borough of New York City) a jury acquitted one Calogero Greco and one Donate Carillo of the murders of one Joseph Carisi and one Nicholas Amoroso last Memorial Day. The Messrs. Carisi and Amoroso, members of the Fascist League of America, had been on their way to join Fascist comrades in a parade. The Messrs. Greco and Carillo, hot antiFascists, were alleged to have set upon them at the foot of an elevated railway staircase...