Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...used to be called Blackwell's Island. In 1921 its name was changed to Welfare Island. Motorists crossing the Queensboro Bridge span it in daily thousands. Wealthy socialites in their riverfront apartments pay big money to look at it. But Welfare Island is not a nice place to visit and nobody would want to live there. It is the site of the New York County Penitentiary...
Early one morning last week several carloads of men, led by New York City's thin, purse-lipped new Commissioner of Correction Austin Harbutt MacCormick and his stocky aid David Marcus, descended the elevator from the Queensboro Bridge, made Welfare Island a surprise visit. By sundown Commissioner MacCormick had lifted the lid off Welfare Island and given city. State and nation a terrifying glimpse into the nether depths of prison life. "The worst prison in the world," pronounced Commissioner MacCormick, whom new Fusion Mayor LaGuardia had enlisted from the Federal Bureau of Prisons to clean up penal scandals left...
...sooner were the first incredible reports of the MacCormick visit to Welfare Island announced than half a dozen agencies preened themselves on having instigated the raid. Among them were the Daily News, the World-Telegram, the New York Foundation, which had paid for an investigation begun two years ago, a grand jury which had recommended an investigation of the prison's "gross mismanagement" last year. Plain, however, was the fact that it took an anti-Tammany administration to dig to the bottom of Welfare Island's cesspool of corruption...
...family, made his living in Switzerland for 18 months as an acrobat and circus rider. He is rated the best judge of horseflesh in Britain's peerage and the second best judge of cigars. Aged 77, he claims to have started the Klondike gold rush on an early visit to the U. S., gravely insists that he once saw a school of authentic mermaids...
...true as Swedes believe that their scrawny old King Gustaf talked the roughest sort of turkey to Chancellor Adolf Hitler on his last visit to Berlin, then His Majesty has few more ardent admirers than the U. S. Ambassador to Germany, outwardly mild but inwardly rampant William Edward Dodd, onetime professor of history at the University of Chicago...