Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moran Jr., accused of taking $36,000 in bribes from New York City's taxicab companies to influence legislation in their favor and help obtain a 1? reduction in the gasoline tax in 1936. Last week's indictment of Commissioner Harnett, which District Attorney Dewey said he had refrained from springing before the election, charged him also with taking bribes...
Other leaders in his profession throughout the U. S. respect New York's safety measures and driving tests, which Commissioner Harnett has supervised although he never touches a steering wheel himself. Several States have copied the Harnett system of using two standard colors for license plates, reversing numerals and background each year...
Since 1934, charged Mr. Dewey, the Commissioner had received $67,000 from Parmelee Transportation Co., which operates 2,000 taxicabs in New York City, through President Morris Markin of Checker Cab Manufacturing Corp., Parmelee's parent organization. In return, said the indictment. Commissioner Harnett had let Parmelee put up its own $250,000 bonding fund to save paying premiums to a bonding company, and then allowed Parmelee to "borrow" half its money back for operating expenses, while denying these special but not illegal privileges to rival companies. Arrested, fingerprinted, released on $5,000 bail, Commissioner Harnett denied all charges...
...followed by wash day. Dirty linen aired in campaigns, or kept out of sight until afterward, goes into the tub and comes out through the wringer. Last week saw political laundries worked overtime. Most notable part of the week's wash was another big indictment by New York City's crusading paladin, District Attorney Tom Dewey (see p. 13). Elsewhere...
...Following vote-fraud charges by Governor-reject Tom Dewey during the campaign, Governor-re-elect Lehman of New York ordered a special grand-jury investigation of balloting in Albany County-the one upstate county carried by Mr. Lehman...