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...Inquisitor Seabury first gave tongue last fortnight by revealing that the Mayor had been given $26,535 worth of bonds by a broker whom he had seen only once before but for whom it was in the Mayor's power to do a potent favor. The broker's name was Joseph A. Sisto. His firm issued the securities of Parmelee Transportation Co. which owns the city's biggest taxi fleet (2,300 cars). Broker Sisto met the Mayor at Atlantic City in the summer of 1929. The following autumn he sent his gift, made "in admiration," around...
...inquiry of which everyone realized the prosecution was as political as the defense. The public seemed interested not so much in what Mayor Walker had done-$26,535 seemed small potatoes indeed for a man of his parts-as in if and how he would elude punishment. After Inquisitor Seabury had further showed last week that the promoters of a bus company had bought Mayor Walker a $10,000 letter of credit, later extended by $3,000, for his junket to Europe in 1927, the chase approached its most exciting stage-Mayor Walker on the stand in his own defense...
...preparation for the Mayor's testimony this week, Inquisitor Seabury concentrated his investigation on State Senator John A. Hastings, a well-fed, acquisitive young Brocklynite who fought a losing battle all the way to the Court of Appeals to escape testifying. Seven years ago, aged 25, John A. Hastings was in the New York Senate when James J. Walker resolved to spring from that body into the New York mayoralty, "third biggest job in the U. S." Clever and obliging, Senator Hastings made himself indispensable to Senator Walker, has stayed close to him ever since. As public men must...
...placing him in the running as a potential candidate. His influence in swinging his support to some one of the major candidates may prove important, but his past record does not designate him as the logical selection for a deadlocked convention. His reputation rests upon his success as an inquisitor, revealing corruption and discovering rascals by means of Senatorial investigations. He is highly unpopular in some quarters...
...evidence against him, Counsel Samuel Seabury of the Legislative investigation, went to Cincinnati. Addressing the City Charter (Reform) Committee, he took a thrust at Governor Roosevelt for failing to oust Farley sooner, flayed Tammany corruption, sounded a national note which some observers interpreted as a non-partisan bid by Inquisitor Seabury for the Presidency. "[Tammany] now reaches out," said he, "to use its influence in support of some candidate who will be friendly to it, if indeed, he does not openly wear the stripes of the Tammany Tiger...