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...Attorney General Ward goes out of office Jan. 1. Nevertheless, Prosecutor Todd announced he would continue his work under Attorney General-elect John J. Bennett Jr., a Democrat. Also begun by Governor Roosevelt to silence critics of Tammany corruption was an investigation of the lower courts of Manhattan & The Bronx by the Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court. Appointed as referee was Justice Samuel Seabury, longtime Tammany foe. Referee Seabury named small, Austrian-born Isidor Jacob Kresel, 52, to be special counsel for this inquiry. Lawyer Kresel has had ample experience in dealing with unsavory situations. Graduated from Columbia...
...Bronx, N. Y., a small merchant went to a branch of Bank of United States and asked officials to buy his stock in the institution. They told him to keep it, that it was a good investment. He misunderstood, and by late afternoon a good-sized run had developed. Police kept clamorous depositors in line. The bad news spread to other branches...
...depositors, many of whom were in line by 9 a. m., the news brought some hysteria. To the Stock Exchange, unsettled all week by fear of this development, the news brought uncertainty, alternate selling and buying. To the market in bank shares it brought much selling. If the Bronx merchant who had tried to sell his Bank of United States stock the day before had succeeded, he would have received 11½a share. After the closing, he would have been lucky to get more than $3. Last year this stock sold...
...days of work for the jobless. With Edward Stephen Harkness's gift of $500,000, the committee's total passed $4,000,000. This sum was what made it possible for little knots of men to be painting Central Park benches, digging sewers in The Bronx, performing clerical work in city hospitals, pitching manure on Park Avenue's thin central strip of grass. Total thus employed: 17,300. ¶ New Orleans jobless began hawking Louisiana oranges on the streets. Manhattan's unemployed fruit vendors sold tangerines two-for-5?. In Elizabeth...
...reporter need ask M. Morand what he thinks of Manhattan's skyline: it is all down here in ecstatic black & white. Aside from his few omissions, his book would make a fairly good, nearly up-to-the-minute guide from Battery to Bronx. One of the omissions: speakeasies. Natu rally M. Morand is too polite to mention them by name, but he is not too polite to damn them generically. Says he : "I know nothing so depressing. . . . If only one could drink water there!" Of Manhattan's big cinemas, he thinks the Paramount "a blend of St. Peter...