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Last autumn and winter, women-in-politics were concerned over the case of Mrs. Florence E. S. Knapp, whom New York elected its first woman Secretary of State for the term of 1924-1926 and who was later charged with "misfeasance, malfeasance and nonfeasance" in office by a onetime subordinate (TIME, Feb. 6). Governor Smith ordered an investigation. The investigator strongly recommended prosecution. Women-in-politics feared that the Knapp case might interest the public more because the defendant was a woman than because of what she was alleged to have done...
...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...
...once the property of Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw of Massachusetts, and containing various legal papers. Among the contents are a bank bill portrait of Chief Justice Shaw and a number of autographed letters of the great justice, including one to Governor Edward Everett, written in 1839, and indorsing John Knapp for election to a state office...
...KNAPP...
Sirs: Reference letter of Mr. Custis Knapp regarding BOY SCOUTS [TIME. Aug. 291 I would suggest that you enquire of tl Official Army Register. Jan 1, 1927, as to his Army status; and if you find, as I have done, that he has no connection with the Army I request that you so state in your department of LETTERS. I would further suggest that this bit of research should have been done prior to publishing Mr. Knapp's letter. In the event that the Official Army Register is not among your works of reference it can be had from...