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Assuming office Jan. 1, 1930, Sachem Grain proceeded to set an impressive record for ineffectuality. He has not yet made known who shot Gambler Arnold Rothstein (TIME, Dec. 24, 1928) or Racketeer Jack ("Legs") Diamond (TIME, Oct. 20). He was lax in prosecuting unscrupulous bondsmen, dock racketeers and ambulance chasing lawyers. He failed to obtain an indictment in the case of retired Magistrate Ewald, suspected of buying his judgeship for $10,000, which was later thrice tried unsuccessfully (TIME, Feb. 2). Of 623 grand jury indictments for grand larceny sent to his office, only 32 were tried and convicted. From...
Bernarr Macfadden's Evening Graphic shrieked its loudest in great front-page streamers: ROTHSTEIN MURDER CLUE BARED BY VIVIAN'S PAL, and 20 MEN OWED VI $100,000; DIARY REVEALS LOVE RING...
...Diamond shooting closely paralleled the still unsolved murder two years ago of Arnold Rothstein, famed gambler-racketeer whose henchman and would-be successor Diamond was. Both were assailed in a hotel bedroom. Both staggered out, were carried by the same doctor to the same hospital, to the same room. Both were married, both refused to tell the police who shot them, both believing (with the police) in the underworld code...
...prosecutor he found it virtually im possible to discover or convict organizers of the drug traffic. They were too clever for his detective staff. One significant fact he learned by hearsay: the "big fellows" like the late rogue Arnold Rothstein, are rarely drug addicts. Nonetheless his men did make some important raids. No table were those last November and December in Greenwich Village, Times Square and Harlem...
Immediately, newsworthy things happened to the police force, topping and eventually extinguishing the Rothstein headlines. Independent of everyone, Commissioner Whalen organized an Air Unit, a training college, a magazine, dressed his men in lapel uniforms with Sam Browne belts, sent them forth to apply new, efficient traffic regulations, and to raid notorious nightclubs. His recent "disclosure" to Congress of "Red" plots in the U. S., put him into the national news. He reduced major crime in the metropolis; at a banquet some 2,000 citizens begged him to remain in office...