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...most interesting portion of the 20,000 words was the Mayor's excoriation of his accusers. Although the City Affairs Committee had scrupulously avoided mention of the playboy Mayor's private life, the Mayor applied to Rabbi Wise a set of epithets first used by the late Mayor William J. Gaynor: "All-sufficient, insufficient, self-sufficient Rabbi Wise, who thinks he is pious but is only bilious; a man of vast and varied misinformation and of prodigious moral requirements." Rev. John Haynes Holmes, co-signer of the charges, was described as "for years a leader in a group...
...when Republican U. S. District Attorney Tuttle could not? To the City Affairs Committee's demand that three of his appointees be removed from the Department of Hospitals, the patriotic Mayor replied: "These three men all saw service in France with the A. E. F. while the complainant [Rabbi Stephen S. Wise] was endeavoring to break down American resistance behind the lines. No one would believe that the Governor, whose patriotic services in the World War are universally remembered, would knowingly consider for a moment such wily propaganda...
...Governor Roosevelt received charges filed against Mayor James John Walker by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and Rev. John Haynes Holmes of the City Affairs Committee. The Governor threatened, as chief magistrate of the state, to jail newshawks for contempt if they continued to pester him for a premature decision. With but one allusion to the playboy Mayor's "careless standards of public life," the City Affairs Committee complained that New York's chief executive had been remiss in administering the Departments of Standards & Appeals, Licenses. Health, Hospital, Budget, Docks, in all of which have been scandals or near...
...regard to business, New York, where live some 17% of U. S. Jews, is one of the non-Sabbath observing States. Last Week Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein of the Institutional Synagogue in Manhattan, broadcasting his sermon, declared that this "religious persecution" must cease. "I call upon the Legislature of the State of New York to pass the Hofstadter-Moffat Sabbath bill!" he cried. Sponsored by Senator Samuel H. Hofstadter and Assemblyman Abbot Low Moffat, the bill would enable seventh-day observers to engage in business on "the first day of the week." Thus all would be equal in the sight...
...York to remove the Mayor of New York City. Many another prominent body joined in demanding a thoroughgoing municipal cleanup: The Citizens Union under Henry Morgenthau, onetime Ambassador to Turkey; the Public Affairs Committee under Socialist Norman Thomas; the City Affairs Committee under Rev. John Haynes Holmes and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise. The Greater New York Federation of Churches next threw its weight into the movement, and then the New York Board of Trade. The latter appointed a Vigilantes Committee of 20, announced that it had been spying on City Hall for the past year. The Roman Catholic Church remained...