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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Albany, N. Y. last week traveled a henchman of Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker of New York City, bearing a 20,000-word document and many press copies thereof. One month after Governor Roosevelt had been asked to remove the Mayor from office, and two weeks after his leisurely vacation in California, Mr. Walker was replying formally to charges of misfeasance against his administration. A glib tongue, the vagueness of the charges, and a sudden Republican stupidity combined to help the Mayor...
...hotel last autumn (TIME, Oct. 20). When he emerged from a city hospital, the city police escorted him and a case of whiskey out of town. Just as Capone has a suburban stronghold at Cicero, Ill., Diamond had made for himself a secluded, floodlighted country home at Acra, N. Y. There he settled down to make a living from running Greene County's beer and applejack industries...
Grover Parks, a Cairo, N. Y. truckman, told the District Attorney that Gangster Diamond and his bodyguard, Jack Dalton, had stopped him as he was driving a truckload of hard cider along a deserted road fortnight ago. Because he would not tell where the cider (from which apple-jack is made) was going, Truckman Parks said the city hoodlums beat him, tied him to a tree, burned the soles of his feet with matches...
...Niceto Alcala Zamora y Torres. Provisional President of Spain, scratched his unshaven chin and shook his rumpled hair at a group of reporters last week...
...King & Queen, accompanied by Prince and Princess Svasti and other members of the Court, have arrived at "Ophir Hall" in Purchase, N. Y., 25 mi. north of great New York City...