Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such last month was the shrewd method employed by one Cornelius J. Donovan, 54, confirmed criminal, to effect a swindle in Manhattan which even the police praised for its ingenuity. The great man whose name, town house and butler played unwitting parts in the crime was New York's Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The jewelmart was Fifth Avenue's fashionable Black, Starr & Frost. The salesman who gave up his card to the persuasive purchaser was one Thomas Patterson. The rings were two, valued at $800 and $750, containing diamonds set in platinum...
...less shrewd were New York detectives who last week arrested Donovan, starving, in a cheap Manhattan hotel; recovered the pawn tickets for the rings...
...ipsos custodes? To keep the official keepers of the law within the law they keep, the National Commission on Law Enforcement last week reached out and drew into its service as expert investigators two good lawyers- Professor Zechariah Chafee Jr. of the Harvard Law School and Walter H. Pollak, Manhattan attorney. Their assignment: to upturn all possible facts for the Commission's subcommittee on "Lawlessness of governmental law enforcing officers." Libertarians were heartened by the appointment of Professor Chafee for they knew him of old as a thoroughgoing liberal who in the past has had no patience with...
...Pollak, a criminal investigator of no small ability, assisted in the prosecution of Nicky Arnstein, bond thief, in 1921. Lately he has been picking over the ruins of Manhattan's City Trust Co. collapse (TIME...