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...corporation law at Columbia. With the inception of the New Deal he served in various capacities, notably as special counsel to the RFO and financial adviser to the American Embassy in Cuba. Since 1934 he has directed the legal affairs of New York City as City Chamberlain in Mayor LaGuardia's Fusion administration. His address at the plenary session on Saturday will be the last formal speech of the Conference
...goods without red tape. Stapleton is well suited for such a purpose for there New York's late Mayor John F. Hylan spent some $30,000,000 to build a row of enormous piers which have failed to earn their upkeep. New York's present Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, who has pushed the free port idea for years, hopes to turn his predecessor's liability into an asset by spending some $6,000,000 more...
...that time its occupant has been Bostonian Sanford Bates. Calvin Coolidge gave him the job of running Massachusetts' prisons nearly 18 years ago. So great grew his fame as a penologist that Herbert Hoover brought him to Washington, Governor Franklin Roosevelt and Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia tried in vain to lure him into the services of the State and City of New York. Having kicked politics out of the antiquated prison system and built 16 model Federal prisons, last week Penologist Bates resigned, turned over his job to his Assistant James V. Bennett, to try his hand at crime prevention...
...prostitution and policy racketeers. Ten crack accountants were picked to search racketeers' bank records and the books of their reluctant victims. Prosecutor Dewey's second prime requisite was the wholehearted backing of top local officials. He got that from the Reform Administration of Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia. Tammany was unable to keep the Board of Estimate from appropriating his expenses, which have run to $280,000 per year. Police Commissioner Valentine gave him a special squad of policemen and detectives too young to be tainted by corruption or disillusionment. Third, he needed an honest, fearless judge to arraign...
...throngs that pressed into the Museum last week came not only to listen to music but to honor David Mannes. A citizens' committee headed by Mayor LaGuardia presented the old man with an elaborate scroll. On it Novelist John Erskine had written: In the twentieth year of your concerts...