Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...early call . . . to .resume conferences," if in the Governor's judgment "any good can result therefrom." All Governor Murphy's energy went into persuading testy G. M. that good could result from another session next day. Meanwhile the Flint City Commission of Nine hastily delegated Mayor Harold Bradshaw with full powers to deal with the strike situation...
...ablest trackers of 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...
...sensational exposure of official corruption in his prosecution of Police Lieutenant Charles Becker for the murder of Gambler Herman Rosenthal in 1912 put Whitman in the Governor's chair. In 1930 Judge Samuel Seabury exposed the magistrates' courts and the next year started the disclosures which ran Mayor Jimmy Walker out of town. Despite these periodic spasms of civic indignation, crime marched on, burgeoning throughout the null into a new kind of super-crime, the racket, which no state or city authority seemed able or willing to attack. "Runaway" Jury, In March 1935 a New York County (Manhattan...
Died, Dr. Alexander Hamilton Phillips, 70, famed Princeton geologist, onetime (1911-16) mayor of Princeton, N. J.; of heart disease; at Princeton. In the carnotite ore of Utah and Colorado ten years ago he discovered and refined the first U. S. radium. Died, Andrew Jackson Montague, 74, Democratic Representative from Virginia since 1913, onetime (1902-06) Governor; after long illness; in Urbanna...
...Soares will come straight from Washington, where he attended the Inauguration and has been conferring with Secretary Hull. He will be accompanied by Julius Holmes, chief of Protocol, and will pay his compliments to the Governor of the Commonwealth and the Mayor of Boston...