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...doctor acts in good faith. Instruction may be to unmarried as well as married women, so far as the New York law indicates. Unsatisfied with freedom alone, the Stone group insisted upon knowing who instigated their arrest. They suspected Roman Catholics and said so. Police Commissioner Grover Aloysius Whalen avoided a direct answer. But he demoted the policewoman who had led the raid against the birth-controllers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Manhattan Birth Control | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

Grover Aloysius Whalen, Police Commissioner of New York city, is an elegant gentleman. Lately he eyed with annoyance the shabby bootblack, one Giuseppe Carnozzi, who shines the Whalen shoes twice daily at police headquarters. Whalen commands were issued. Carnozzi dimensions were taken. Last week a new bootblack shined the Whalen shoes?still named Giuseppe Carnozzi but now clad in blue livery with brass buttons, with the title BOOTBLACK embroidered on cap, on breast pocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 6, 1929 | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...Father Will Whalen's letter in TIME, April 8, he says: "A zealous Mason tried to capture him for the order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 29, 1929 | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

...Estimate furnished by New York's Police Commissioner Grover Whalen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Junior Heflin | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAME TO DAWN | 4/20/1929 | See Source »

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