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...York job-buying judges continued the cause of citizens' disgust. To the charges against Judge George F. Ewald were added this month similar charges against Judge Amadeo A. Bertini of General Sessions Court, successor to deposed Judge Francis Xavier Mancuso (TIME, Aug. 25). One Sunday early this month Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, crusading civic leader, was advised by his doctor not to preach his scheduled sermon. He asked Norman Thomas, Socialist Congressional candidate and scandal-flayer, to speak for him. After Speaker Thomas had finished describing the city's condition, Rabbi Wise could contain himself no longer...
...organization is between Tammany Hall, the New York City organization, and a more elevated element at present headed by Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. For months the local Republicans have been bombarding New York City's Tammany administration with charges which culminated in the indictment of Magistrate George F. Ewald, alleged to have bought his judgeship. Observers last week began wondering if the bombardment had started a crack in the national Democratic Keystone...
Governor Roosevelt ordered the current Ewald investigation only after much hesitation. He then instructed the Republican Attorney General to limit his special grand jury to the case in hand. Fortnight ago the jury, ignoring this restriction, sought to delve into rumors of a large-scale job-buying system in Tammany Hall. To be able to make more indictments, the jury wanted all witnesses to waive their Constitutional immunity from having their testimony used against them. Subpenaed and presented with immunity waivers to sign were John Francis ("Boss") Curry, chief of Tammany Hall, and the leaders of his 23 districts. Boss...
...judges indicted, judges deposed, judges sentenced to gaol, it now had a judge "lost." Immediately the Press linked Judge Crater's vanishment to New York's current political suitfest-the network of scandal evolving from U. S. District Attorney Tuttle's discovery that Magistrate George F. Ewald's wife had "loaned" $10,000 to Martin J. Healy, leader of the Cayuga Club, a Tammany organization in the 19th city Assembly District, simultaneously with Ewald's recommendation for the bench. On Aug. 8 the County grand jury took revealing testimony (TIME, Aug. 25). Later, Governor Franklin...
...State Legislature and Democratic Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt began playing political badminton with suggestions that New York City be investigated. While Governor Roosevelt temporized, Republican U. S. Attorney Charles H. Tuttle, aspirant for the gubernatorial nomination next autumn, was busy. He it was who brought the Vause, Walsh and Ewald cases to light, leaving the public to draw the political inference. He it was who startled Mayor Walker into starting an "investigation" of his own last month, supervised by his Commissioner of Accounts, James A. Higgins...