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...still have plenty of money. They are Policeman Meshbesher (Hugh O'Connell) and those other fortunates who have been able to buy a seat on the force. It is Mrs. Meshbesher (Mary Boland) who declares that she has so many diamonds "you can see me from Yonkers." When Inquisitor Samuel Seabury (see p. 13) threatens the policemen with an investigation, they decide to conceal their opulence by financing a revue, The Rhinestones of 1932. High spot of this durbar, which must have cost Producer Sam H. Harris himself a good deal of money, is a lavish rhinestone Venetian scene...
Governor Roosevelt ordered Sheriff Farley to reply to these charges. With the Farley answer still secret, Inquisitor Seabury last week made a flying trip to Albany to press home his charges in person...
...discover that he had overlooked more. He claimed he was legally entitled to it. Large, black-browed, fat-jowled, Sheriff Farley had more to bother about last week than embezzlement, for he was liable to be summarily removed from office by Governor Roosevelt. Two months ago Samuel Seabury, inquisitor of the legislative committee probing Tammany corruption, sent the Governor a list of charges against Sheriff Farley, demanded his ousting. Included was the $360,660 deposited by the sheriff in six years, which he feebly explained as coming out of a fabulous "tin box." His motley assortment of incompetent subordinates were...
...District Attorney in Manhattan, preparing to run as a Republican against Governor Roosevelt, disclosed all manner of jobbery among Tammany judges. Again the Legislature wanted to probe but Governor Roosevelt ordered the Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court to undertake the investigation, picked Samuel Seabury as chief inquisitor. Five magistrates went off the bench, twelve vice squad policemen accused of frame-ups were suspended from the force. Governor Roosevelt dismissed formal charges against Mayor Walker and District Attorney Grain. He restrained his own Republican Attorney General from extending a separate inquiry. Finally the Legislature, impatient with these scattered efforts...
...Inquisitor-I ask you whether you will be good enough to say to the committee whether or not the fact that you believe they did have influence was a circumstance that led you to select them. (Bickering from one of the committee's Democratic members...