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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After $8,000,000 was finally appropriated, in 1899. Governor Theodore Roosevelt and other leading New Yorkers invited Dockman Ambrose to a testimonial dinner. He died a week later...
Reason for the Ambrose's name and existence: a fighting Irish wharf-&-dry-dock man of Manhattan named John Wolfe Ambrose harangued for 18 years to get Congress to dredge the approach to New York Harbor...
...fourth if it would do any good." He announced that seven captured rioters would be tried for their lives. He promised to make special penal recommendations to the legislature next month concerning: 1) A five-year building program to increase prison accommodations by 3,000; 2) Construction of a new 1,000-men model prison at Attica; 3) Increase in prisoners' daily ration allowance from 21¢ to 26¢ 4) Work for every prisoner, with pay for all work...
...appointed a new acting warden, Dr. Frank L. Christian, superintendent of the Elmira Reformatory, humanitarian...
...tingling Celtic sense of the dramatic has New York's Mayor James John Walker. One midnight last week, he made the unprecedented announcement that he would act as a special catastrophe investigator...