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...born of Finnish parents some 40 years ago in upper Michigan. He went to Alaska, got a job sweeping out the office of the Fairbanks Daily Times, later earned enough to put himself through the University of Washington. He first turned up in Washington, D.C. as secretary to Frank Sulzer, onetime delegate from Alaska. Last year he was an early rider on the Roosevelt bandwagon, got himself chosen to the Chicago convention as an Alaskan delegate. Manager Farley, impressed with his ability to forecast political trends, to find out what voters were thinking, took him under his wing. Most...
Well aware is Boss Curry of the Hall's present ticklish situation, for which there is an interesting parallel in the last great Tammany scandal. In 1912, the year before Boss Murphy had Governor Sulzer impeached, a gambler named Herman Rosenthal was killed on the eve of his giving damaging evidence against venal policemen. Within four months Police Lieutenant Charles Becker, "Lefty Louis" Rosenberg, "Gyp the Blood" Horowitz, "Whitey" Lewis and "Dago Frank" Ciro-fici were sentenced to death for the murder. The reaction to this affair gave the State a Reform Governor (Charles S. Whitman), the city a Reform...
...Jacob Kresel is a diminutive man and an able lawyer. Austrian by birth. American by 40 years of residence, his record in the Bar includes investigation of the famous insurance scandals of a quarter of a century ago. He was a prosecuting attorney in the impeachment of Governor William Sulzer of New York. For the U. S. Government he investigated the meat packers in Chicago and was just delving into the building trades when Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty discharged him from the Government employ. Three years ago he unearthed a series of "ambulance chasing" scandals in Manhattan. Recently...
...Tammany foe. Referee Seabury named small, Austrian-born Isidor Jacob Kresel, 52, to be special counsel for this inquiry. Lawyer Kresel has had ample experience in dealing with unsavory situations. Graduated from Columbia in 1900, he has been assistant district attorney for New York County, helped impeach Governor William Sulzer (1913), has probed insurance irregularities, meat packers, ambulance chasers for State and city investigations. He is counsel for Bank of United States which crashed last fortnight. Policemen. First puddle Counsel Kresel dipped his hand into was the Women's Court. Month ago he held a three-day hearing, piled...
...home town standing and enthusiasm for the car itself. Ford dealers could sell only Ford cars. "Influences" that made Ford stock worth relatively little in 1913: Woodrow Wilson's threat to hang commercial malefactors "on a gallows as high as Haman"; New York's impeached Governor William Sulzer's threats against stock speculations; Theodore Roosevelt's trumpetings at "malefactors of great wealth."-Testimony of Arthur O. Choate, Manhattan investment banker...