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Gusty Governor. The day after Inquisitor Seabury's pronouncement on the Mayor's bonds came out, Governor Roosevelt blandly smiled away the Walker case with: "I have nothing to say." One day later when he saw press headlines passing the matter on to him the Governor suddenly began to sound like his late, great, gusty fifth-cousin Theodore...
...Officially the Walker methods were new to the American Medical Association and the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care, organizations which are striving mightily to keep doctors from poverty. Dr. Walker, a corpulent, quiet contrast to his slim, glib brother, made his explanations to Judge Samuel Seabury, inquisitor of the Scandals of New York...
...each and $25 for a sacroiliac support. For such services from the beginning of 1929 to Jan. 31, 1932, New York City paid Dr. Cassasa $59,169.75, Dr. Brennan $33,609.90, Dr. Feinberg $56,563.25, Dr. O'Mara $66,658.65-a total of $216,001.55. Often-Inquisitor Seabury demonstrated -as soon as they received checks from the city, they sent checks for exactly half the amounts to Mayor James John Walker's busy brother Dr. William Henry Walker...
...days prior, Inquisitor Seabury had questioned an old client of the Mayor's, one Abraham Schwartz, showman and realtor. Showman Schwartz reconstructed the scene of the Mayor's introducing him to Fugitive Sherwood: " 'Abe,' he says, 'I am the Mayor of the City of New York now, and all transactions of business-take it up with Sherwood, whatever he does, it suits...
...Inquisitor tossed this question into the proceedings during the last of the Mayor's two sessions on the stand. Publisher Block, according to testimony brought out at an earlier hearing, had been interested in a Brooklyn concern which planned to sell tile to the city subways. The Mayor affirmed the revelation of his amazing generosity with a shrug of his shoulders, called it a "beneficence," said that he always took his gains home in cash and put them in a safe-"not a vault, not a tin box." Publisher Block's gift, instead of damaging the Mayor, appeared...