Word: mulrooney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week New York City had another chance to see how a gruff, sturdy Irish professional, up from the ranks, could handle its crime problem in a year of Depression. Police Commissioner Edward Pierce Mulrooney issued his report for 1932. Major crimes had decreased from 1931. Total felonies were 23,599 against 28,597. Crimes of violence went down from 6,815 to 6,634. There were 2,417 burglaries against 2,678 the previous year, 13,468 grand larcenies...
...dark side Commissioner Mulrooney found that criminal age limits were still going down. More youths between 16 and 20 were arrested (up from 38,959 to 39,186), though fewer of them had committed crimes of violence. Peak of the crime age lay between 26 and 30. Though there were eleven fewer than 1931's 489 murders and manslaughters, the Commissioner viewed with grave alarm the public's continued indifference and refusal to cooperate in bringing killers to justice...
...James John Walker aboard, the brand-new 51,000-ton, 28-knot Rex broke down at Gibraltar, reached Manhattan three days late. The slightly smaller, equally fast and ornate Conte di Savoia left Naples on her maiden voyage fortnight ago with New York's Police Commissioner Edward P. Mulrooney as passenger...
...York City's Police Commissioner Edward Pierce Mulrooney went to the Vatican, heard himself, his family and force blessed by Pope Pius XI Later he heard Benito Mussolini wonder why Franklin Delano Roosevelt and James John ("Jimmy") Walker had "quarreled," since they are members of the same political party...
...City Charter: "It shall not be lawful to grant, use or occupy for the purposes of a public fair or exhibition any portion of any park, square or public place." Unable to dislodge Commissioner Herrick from the City Charter, Mr. Porter appealed instead to Police Commissioner Edward P. Mulrooney who promptly allowed "the public fair or exhibition," but not in the Park. Mr. Porter led his swarming artists across the street to the sidewalks facing the Park...