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...began next day when Managing Editor Walker at the Mirror began to receive congratulations. First box of cigars came from Lucius Morris Beebe, dandified columnist on the Herald Tribune. Second came from Edward Pierce Mulrooney, onetime New York City Police Commissioner, now chairman of the State Liquor Control Board. A wry telegram from Reporter Forrest Davis read: CONGRATULATIONS STOP GLAD TO SEE YOU ARE AT LAST UP TO YOUR LEVEL...
...ever importing a drop. These gentry of late have proceeded to approach legitimate importing houses with excess quota orders and offer to sell them their unused permits at a fancy premium. Since New York is the port through which most imported liquor arrives, FACA wrote to Edward P. Mulrooney, head of the state liquor board, urging an immediate investigation of the practice. FACAdministrator Joseph Choate Jr. dropped his studies on the problem of fixing an import quota for sake long enough to declare...
Policeman Mulrooney's "model" code: Bars. Wine and hard liquor may be served only at tables in restaurants. Since last April, beer has been served at bars in restaurants (reason: so that poor men need not tip waiters) and still may be. But if acustomer wants another kind of drink he must sit down. He does not have to order food, but the restaurant, hotel or club has to satisfy the liquor board that its primary business is not selling drinks...
Appointed. James Sylvester Bolan, 60, Deputy Chief Inspector of Manhattan's police; to be Police Commissioner, succeeding Edward Pierce Mulrooney who last week resigned to become chairman of New York's State Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. Like his predecessor. Commissioner Bolan answered the recruiting call of Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt in 1896, has come up steadily from the ranks. He got his first promotion (to sergeant) in 1901 when he jumped from a ferryboat into Hell Gate Channel, rescued two drowning men. During his ten-year supervision of Manhattan's theatre district, Broadway has called...
...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...