Word: whalen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Estimate furnished by New York's Police Commissioner Grover Whalen...
Close on the heels of Grover Whalen's curfew for night-clubs, the parents of New York's younger set have dropped the shoe that will bring Manhattan's deb parties to a three o'clock ending. This change is but a part of the program which irate hostesses will inaugurate next season. One thousand questionnaires carefully distributed among the Four Hundred revealed that the young people are all in favor of reform...
...order. The Mason told me he'd failed, and this was the reason: "Why, laws, I'm a Catholic! I belong to Father W." I gave the Mason a drink; the joke was good-and it was on the Mason and me. FATHER WILL WHALEN Old Jesuit Mission. Orrtanna...
...with their deplorable taste have entered the managing game. Another factor lies in ticket speeulation which, if not curbed, will be the death of the theatre. And a final reason lies in the difficulty of making one's way through New York traffic, a thing which Police Commissioner Whalen may have remedied to some extent...
...Whalen was much less successful in meeting the challenge of crime to which he owes his office. The murderer of Gambler Rothstein remained at large; for every speakeasy closed, many remained prosperously open; the city's purlieus were by no means disinfected. Mr. Whalen made threats against 996 "nests of crime" listed in a recent police report. At the Chelsea Methodist Church he declared his opinion that "known criminals have no Constitutional rights." He also blurted out that any who questioned his methods "are not good citizens...