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Thus, last month, did Samuel Seabury, counsel for the Republican-controlled legislative committee which has been investigating the Democratic municipal government for the past six months, state the purpose of his inquiry. Last week Inquisitor Seabury had established the identity of several persons who had profited by conditions within Tammany Hall, had also established the extent of their profits...
Digging into the bank accounts of minor city officials Inquisitor Seabury made public the following list of deposits since...
John Davison Rockefeller Jr. has found that Tammany Hall was holding up him and the other builders of Manhattan's Radio City, for the granting of privileges for entrancesand garages. He threatened to withdraw the project, threatened to tell Samuel Seabury, inquisitor of the city's municipal scandals. Tammany Hall, scowled, pondered...
Before Boss Curry was examined, Inquisitor Seabury called from jail Horse Doctor Doyle whose contempt case had developed into a test of the committee's powers. Mr. Seabury asked Dr. Doyle the one question the Court of Appeals had ruled he must answer: "Did you bribe any public official?" Replied Dr. Doyle: "No." Mr. Seabury and the Republican Committeemen were astonished by this answer, suspected Horse Doctor Doyle of committing perjury. Though the committee voted he was still in contempt, "Doc" Doyle's lawyers got him out of jail on a writ of habeas corpus...
...addendum to the committee's petition Inquisitor Seabury expressed publicly for the first time just what he thought the investigation was heading into: "Corruption in the government of New York City is widespread. . . . This corruption could not exist on so large a scale if the sinister forces who are profiting by it were not afforded protection. Their identity must be established if this system is to be broken down. . . The committee has been met with every obstruction which it has been possible for the beneficiaries of this vicious system to throw...