Word: governors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Knapp, a grey-haired matron of considerable bearing, resigned her post as Dean of the College of Home Economics at Syracuse University "until such time as my good name is cleared before the world." The Albany district attorney decided that the Governor's investigator's findings should be waived, dropped, forgotten. The findings, which he called "fantastic," charged that Mrs. Knapp, in administering a $1,200,000 census fund, had given sinecures to her relatives, forged endorsements on checks, falsified her expense accounts, obtained false certifications from a notary public, mishandled some...
...Governor Smith was not convinced that the charges were "fantastic." He summoned a Grand Jury. Last week, swiftly, the Grand Jury indicted Mrs. Knapp on six criminal counts including grand larceny. Women-in-politics, and other citizens, drew no edification from these developments, beyond this: where many a Mr. Feasance might have acquired fat graft with one or two cunning strokes, this alleged Mrs. Feasance was accused of enjoying only $782.57 personally, obtained in trifling amounts from time to time by a series of clumsy, obvious, petty pilferings...
Just before Christmas, Governor Smith of New York State launched an investigation of President Connolly's sewer system (TIME, Jan. 2). The system consisted, allegedly, in President Connolly's appointment of a special city engineer who specified a certain type of lock-joint pipe for Queens sewers. The sole local agent for the required pipe was President Connolly's good friend, one John M. Phillips. Monopolist Phillips sat back in his office swigging milk and whiskey, dictating pipe prices to contractors, growing rich. Borough President Connolly did not grow any poorer...
...After a succession of confused events, including mysterious burning and theft of records which might have injured the defense case, Connolly asked the city for $100,000 to pay for his trial as a public official. When this astonishing request was refused, Borough President Connolly resigned. The Governor's investigation changed from one to determine Connolly's fitness for office, to one to determine his fitness for a penal cell...
Besides his trouble with the Governor, Connolly was in trouble with the U. S. His friend Phillips was last week arrested in Florida, charged with Federal income tax evasions of some three millions. Connolly's income tax returns were being looked up too. Awaiting his fate, Connolly borrowed fortitude from tradition. Of the three Queens presidents preceding this, one (Cassidy) went to Sing Sing; one (Bermel) fled to Europe; one (Gresser) was removed for incompetence on the matter that Connolly was elected to reform, Sewers...