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Died. Viscount Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, 71, Britain's Wartime Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; of heart disease after long illness; at Fallodon, Christen Bank, Northumberland. He was Foreign Secretary longer (1905-16) than any other man, was instrumental in shaping the policy which kept...
The 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...
Tammany was saved from a second black eye when the New York County grand jury failed to indict anyone on Attorney Medalie's charge that he knew four Tammany district leaders allied with racketeers. On its own initiative the grand jury had elected to investigate this charge, had heard...
Attorney General Bennett refused to touch the racketeering investigation, completed the buck-passing cycle by sending the matter back to New York District Attorney Grain, the 73-year-old Tammany appointee who had declined to have anything to do with it in the first place.
At No. 170 Nassau St. between the years 1868 and 1915 was a long, ill-lit, barnlike room jammed with rolltop desks, littered with paper, its walls smeared with grime and dirt. When the presses pounded on the floor above, a thin downpour of dust floated over the room. Grimy...