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Governor Roosevelt found himself pushed into another tight place last week by the charges preferred by Inquisitor Samuel Seabury against New York's Mayor Walker (TIME, June 13). The Governor had to decide whether or not to remove the Tammany Mayor from office for malfeasance and nonfeasance. He fumed...
Bishop James Cannon Jr., the South's arch Dry, sounded the same note: "Mr. Rockefeller's attitude is doubtless sincere, but it's not surprising to those who know the influences which surround him, living as he does where literally Satan's seat is, in the...
What would Governor Roosevelt do if he found Mayor Walker's explanations unsatisfactory? That question was inevitably, inextricably bound up with the Governor's presidential ambition. Already Tammany was cold to him. And every day he needed more badly Tammany's support for the nomination. On the...
"Bedlam Reigns As Walker Testifies," "Jimmy's Wisecracks Convulse Audience," "Crowds Cheer Walker On Street." With these headlines the newspapers record the popular reaction to the examination of the Mayor of New York on charges of graft and incompetence. Apparently the greater part of the people of New York are...
The Governor's position is, politically speaking, a highly dangerous one. The enmities which he will acquire, which ever way he acts, will affect both his chances for the nomination, and for election if he is nominated. All that can safely be said is that on the basis of his...