Word: mulrooney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...orient friend & foe, shot his broad, lopsided campaign smile, sat down jauntily to defend himself against gravest suspicions of his official conduct. As he looked around him in the packed, hot chamber, Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker could see friends aplenty: Lawyer Dudley Field Malone, Police Commissioner Edward P. Mulrooney's wife, a host of rowdy Tammanyites and the hard-headed Democratic minority of the Legislative investigation committee which was about to wave at him. His friends proved a loyal group, wildly cheering his cheapest sallies, hissing & booing his inquisitor. Outside was an admiring multitude who really would...
...known in the underworld as "giving him the circus." Circus victims, part of whose money goes to the taxicab driver who steers them to the evil retreat, are usually so ashamed of themselves afterward that they fail to report to the police. This racket, Police Commissioner Edward P. Mulrooney told the New York Bond Club two months ago, is one which the police are particularly anxious to stamp out. His speech did not fall on entirely deaf ears. Last week one New Yorker with the courage of his indiscretions, Henry C. Murphy of the Curb Exchange, appeared before the Prohibition...
...declined these offers, explained that the artists were looking for a chance to sell their works directly to the public. Heeding the wave of public interest, Park Commissioner Herrick reconsidered the whole matter, then refused permission again. Messrs. Porter & Glickstein carried their plea to Commissioner of Police Edward P. Mulrooney...
...Manhattan police station, policemen listening to a radio heard Commissioner Mulrooney declare: "Homicides resulting from lovers' quarrels cannot be prevented by the police." Two shots sounded half a block from the station house. The policemen ran to the spot, found two lovers dead on the sidewalk...
...Until last week it was not known that the Association had given Commissioner Mulrooney $15,000 to purchase information leading to the arrest and trial of Harry Stein and Samuel Greenberg for the murder of notorious Benita Franklin Bischoff (Vivian Gordon). Stein and Greenberg were subsequently acquitted (TIME, July 27). The Association gave the money, but kept quiet about it, because the Bischoff murder for a time cast a shadow over the Police Department...