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...Federal grand jury adjourned without indicting runaway James John ("Jimmy") Walker for income tax evasion. For three months Federal District Attorney George Zerdin Medalie, a Republican leftover, had been investigating the onetime Tammany mayor's finances. The grand jury had questioned Russell Sherwood, Walker's fiscal agent, nine dif- ferent times without eliciting sufficient evidence to charge a crime. Sherwood stood his ground on the time-honored formula that to answer questions might tend to incriminate him. Resurrection of the Walker case would have been a troublesome black eye for Tammany's campaign...
...onetime New York mayor whose income tax was under investigation last week by the U.S. was James John ("Jimmy") Walker, still in happy exile in Europe. Before the Federal Grand Jury in Manhattan appeared Russell T. Sherwood, Walker's financial Man Friday who fled investigation by the Legislature's inquisitor, Samuel Seabury. Sherwood balked at many a Question on the ground that the answer might tend to degrade and incriminate him, was upheld by a Federal judge...
...suspects, that on the screen as well as on the stage, that polished and adroit acting makes Mr. Sherwood's play seem somewhat better than it really is. Actually, it is merely the familiar French bedroom farce with a dash of high comedy flavoring--but how far removed from true high comedy like "The Second Man"--and lines that are clever and nothing more. And it is this lack of any genuine dramatic writing that procures for plays like "Reunion in Vienna" the extravagant critical kudos that is received. All in all, however, it provides a most diverting evening--with...
...words were exciting, galvanic. Accountant Russell T. Sherwood, so-called "fiscal agent" of slick Ex-Mayor Jimmy Walker, had run away two years ago when a legislative committee wanted to ask him who actually owned the $1,000,000 which allegedly had passed through his bank and brokerage accounts. His was the testimony, never obtained which would definitely have nailed down the corruption case against Walker, or quashed it. Shortly after skipping town Sherwood turned up briefly in Mexico City with a new wife. Since then, no trace. The Press, which takes enormous pride in finding fugitives when authorities fail...
...American's triumph did not end with finding Sherwood. Sheltered by his lawyer on one side and friendly Collector Duggan (who called him "Russell'') on the other, Sherwood would not talk much but he did make one statement that was bursting with implication. He denied that one penny of the vast sums in his accounts had ever belonged...