Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This gruesome ordeal had its effect. That very day Assemblyman Edgar F. Moran introduced in the Legislature an amendment to New York's Constitution to let the Governor share his most harrowing responsibility, by setting up a Board of Pardons. Today 16 States have Pardon Boards. But in most States, Governors, though they may rely on other officials to make factual investigations and recommendations, must exercise the awful power of pardoning and commuting sentences alone...
...York State Society of Certified Public Accountants, New York City's bouncing Comptroller Joseph D. McGoldrick last week boasted that in five years the LaGuardia unco-honest Fusion Administration had cost taxpayers $325,664,347 less than the last five years of Tammany rule. The Citizens Budget Commission looked at his figures, said he must have meant $125,664,347. So he did, replied Mr. McGoldrick, confessing a $200,000,000 error...
Oddly, New York psychiatrists promptly condemned Greenfield, called him a murderer who had simply grown tired of caring for his imbecile son. Toward euthanasia, the medical profession is inclined to be kinder. Laymen were sympathetic, and even District Attorney Samuel John Foley, who will ask a Bronx grand jury for an indictment this week, admitted that he was reluctant to prosecute such "a sad case...
Quick to capitalize on all this free publicity was Publisher Julian Messner, who advertised in the New York Times: "For the full, free-spoken, eye-opening account of how the press is failing the public, read the book Secretary Ickes urges every citizen to read, LORDS OF THE PRESS, by George Seldes." The Seldes book was issued last November, has been studied in Washington with much the same interest as Ferdinand Lundberg's sensational America's 60 Families...
Ever since, Dr. Cutten has kept busy shocking U. S. humanitarians by calling social security "degrading," denouncing "parasitic paupers," modern medicine and modern philanthropy. Reviewing his utterances, the New York World-Telegram once concluded that "Dr. Cutten wanted a dictator...