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...York District Attorney he proposed Frederic René ("Fritz") Coudert Jr., smooth young Republican from the silk-stocking district. He resurrected onetime Mayor John Francis ("Red Mike") Hylan for Borough President of Queens and balanced him with Louis Waldman, New York State Socialist chairman, for Borough President of The Bronx. Mayor O'Brien was tactfully reserved his old job as Surrogate...
...Boys," ex-convicts and plug-uglies who police the trust. Even the butcher on the quiet street who finally sells the broiler, should he escape all his other criminal hazards, probably has his district and his customers and his wholesaler assigned him by poultry racketeers. In The Bronx, one night early last month, police caught seven hoodlums vigorously banging sawed-off billiard cues against plate glass and fixtures, hurriedly releasing crates of fowl at the market of S. S. & B. Poultry Corp. The hoodlums were arrested, arraigned for trial last week. Soon the S. S. & B.'s proprietors - Hyman...
...York synagogs vibrated with Rabbinical wrath last Friday evening. The Kashruth Association, guild of ritual food inspectors, met during the week in anger. Some 6,500 kosher butcher shops feared for their supplies. Half as many kosher delicatessen stores were worried about their spicy provender; householders in The Bronx, Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn chirped excitedly. All because of horrid disclosures of racketeering in the city's kosher food markets (see p. 15). The Kashruth Association called conditions in the kosher chicken markets "a blot upon the good name of the Jew." The Kashruth Association could no longer, it announced...
Died. Louis H. Willard, Bronx real estate dealer impoverished by overbearing competition with local politicians, effective witness in the Seabury investigations of New York City governmental corruption; by his own hand (poison); in a Manhattan hotel; while reading old newspaper clippings which recounted the poison-suicides of his wife and sister-in-law, whom politico-business persecutions likewise demoralized...
...memorial gate to the late Paul James Rainey, famed big game hunter. Cleveland coal & coke scion (TIME, Oct. i, 1923). Rainey was the first to hunt African lions with dog packs, the first to make a wild animal cinema (1912). In 1925 the Rainey family offered the Bronx Zoo a huge (35 ft. high, 42 ft. wide) bronze double gate as a memorial to Paul, commissioned Manship to design...