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...Mayor Harry A. Mackey who was passive for a while, who scorned the idea that municipal extortionists could exist among the police or elsewhere. But at length he ordered a wholesale transfer of the police force. He compared the reports of new and old incumbents of the precincts. On the basis of later Grand Jury reports he suspended from office almost one half of the executive police officers-three out of five inspectors, 18 out of 43 captains. These men had been found "unfit to hold any position in the municipal government." Their bank accounts revealed "unexplained wealth" amounting...
Schemer. In Philadelphia a policeman's berth is rapidly becoming a mare's nest. Mayor Harry A. Mackey, who has hitherto expressed many wishes to be of more momentous service to District Attorney Monaghan, gloated over a choice scheme. He ordered a complete transfer of the city police. About 4,800 officers found themselves detailed to new precincts. The order came suddenly; no policeman knew beforehand to what station he was being assigned. Before the transfer each Captain submitted a report of conditions in his precinct, a resume of the reports of sergeants and patrolmen under him. Following...
...Mayor Mackey of Philadelphia clutched the rostrum of the Arch Street Methodist Episcopal Church and begged Evangelist "Billy" Sunday to conduct "a great campaign in this city as an antidote to the bootlegger, hijacker and gunman." Mr. Sunday, responding, said the proposition was attractive...
...same time officers for the Associated Harvard Clubs for the coming year were named. Harry N. Williams '85, of Boston, has been elected president. Nathan Percales Jr. '04, of Milwaukee. Mind., secretary, and Mackey wells '08, also of Milwaukee, treasurer. About 700 graduates are in attendance at the three-day meeting...
...Clark '87, T. W. Slocum '90, M. D. Follansbee '92, Evan Hallister '97, L. P. Marvin '98, Eliot Wadsworth '98, H. S. Dennison '99, D. F. Davis '00, F. L. Higginson '00, James Lawrence '01, J. P. Jones '02, C. C. Bolton '05, John Richardson '08, Mackey Wells '08, J. S. Morgan Jr. '14, and Henry Munroe...