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...warnings of Grover Aloysius Whalen, New York police chief (TIME, May 12) and of Pope Pius XI against Soviet activities in the U. S., there were added last week, in a release by the National Civic Federation, a warning and an exhortation from no less a personage than Elder Statesman Elihu Root, onetime (1905-09) Secretary of State. Said...
Albert Carroll satirically skewered Chinese Actor Mei Lan-fang with elaborate gesture and thin, cracked voice. Another famed actor taken up was Grover Aloysius ("Gardenia") Whalen, who lately returned to Wanamaker's department store from the Police Commissionership of New York. Sings he (Philip Loeb...
However, such individualism as Mr. Whalen's in a Tammany (which means team-play, or machine-play) administration was unusual in New York. Even amid the cheers, newsgatherers scented friction, suggested the dapper mayor was jealous of his Commissioner's sartorial perfection, of his triumphant publicity, his possible eligibility for the mayoralty itself...
Last week newsgatherers were allowed to crowd around a City Hall table behind which stood Commissioner Whalen, police dignitaries and the Mayor. "Now, now," chided Mr. Walker, "this isn't Wanamaker's bargain counter." Then he announced that Mr. Whalen had resigned, was returning to Wanamaker's. In his place was put Assistant Chief Inspector of Detectives Edward Pierce Mulrooney, 57, a tightlipped, hardboiled police officer, who joined the force in 1896, answering an advertisement by then Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt Sr. Said the Mayor to Commissioner Mulrooney: "It was your devotion to duty which led you away from spectacle...
...House that Communists were seizing U. S. schools, were plotting to overthrow the Government. He blamed the Third International for labor troubles in the textile industry of the South. He cited the charges of Soviet propaganda made against Amtorg Trading Corp. by New York City's Police Commissioner Whalen (TIME, May 12), now retired. He demanded the immediate deportation to Russia of all alien Communists, seriously recommended that U. S. citizens favoring Communism be shipped to a desert island in the Philippines to practice their political creed alone...