Word: sisto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taxis. Why did the Mayor accept $26,535 worth of bonds from Broker Joseph A. Sisto, whose firm was interested in Parmelee Transportation (Checker Cab) securities, in 1929? Was it chance that, after Broker Sisto spoke to His Honor about the necessity for curbing low-rate "taxicab racketeers," the Mayor legislated into being the Board of Taxicab Control...
...last fortnight by revealing that the Mayor had been given $26,535 worth of bonds by a broker whom he had seen only once before but for whom it was in the Mayor's power to do a potent favor. The broker's name was Joseph A. Sisto. His firm issued the securities of Parmelee Transportation Co. which owns the city's biggest taxi fleet (2,300 cars). Broker Sisto met the Mayor at Atlantic City in the summer of 1929. The following autumn he sent his gift, made "in admiration," around to the City Hall. Later...
...Sisto revelation brought no immediate surge of public indignation against foxy Mayor Walker. The news of his bonds was juxtaposed with news of his Beer Parade, and pure chance sent also the discovery of the Lindbergh baby's corpse. Besides, the New York public had waited months for the Mayor's turn to come in an inquiry of which everyone realized the prosecution was as political as the defense. The public seemed interested not so much in what Mayor Walker had done-$26,535 seemed small potatoes indeed for a man of his parts...
Partners of other recently failed houses were in or near Manhattan last week. James A. Sisto was in his office preparing for trial on Dec. 2. All of Prince & Whitely's partners awaited trial Dec. 26. Harold Russell Ryder, who wrecked the firm of Woody & Co. and was afterward reported living at Hotel Ambassador through courtesy of the management, was in Bay Shore with his mother. Charles Victor Bob, missing mining promoter (TIME, Oct. 27), surrendered to the District Attorney of New York, related an Odyssey of wanderings which had taken him to Phoenix, Ariz., Los Angeles, Mexico City...
...other six: Mandeville, Brooks & Chaffee, Providence; Roberts & Hall, Cincinnati; Woody & Co., J. A. Sisto & Co., Prince & Whitely, Manhattan...