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...Collector of Internal Revenue, District of Michigan. "Horatio J. Abbott." Next day Mr. Morgenthau suspended Deputy Collector Tighe and another one-time Abbott appointee, dumped a mass of evidence on campaign cash-collecting by jobholders into the lap of Attorney General Cummings. Keeping well out of the Democratic cleanup, Michigan's Republican Senator Vandenberg remarked: "As long as they run their own laundry, I see no reason to get soap in my eyes...
Incidentally, the Comptroller of the Currency is doing a remarkable cleanup job on the closed banks. He has been aggressively pushing ahead to reopen as many banks as possible. To date there are only 345 of the unlicensed banks left, aside from those which went into voluntary or involuntary liquidation. These 345 banks have deposits of about...
...whipped up a great pother of official excitement and activity in Honolulu and Washington. Governor Lawrence M. Judd of Hawaii, island-born son of an island-born father, found himself under sharp, critical attack for Honolulu's lax law enforcement. Businessmen led by Walter Dillingham, railway tycoon, demanded a cleanup. Worthy citizens held mass meetings to protest against being "shushed"' by politicians who fairly screamed that Hawaii's raucous medley of race and sex was all an exaggeration. The Grand Jury met and dawdled while Governor Judd summoned a quick session of the Territorial Legislature, recommended a reorganization...
...addition to shaking up the lineup. Mitchell has also made up a new bating order, in the hope of bolstering up the team's hitting record. Rex has been advanced from seventh in the list to the cleanup position...
...culpable laxity. The Society for the Prevention of Crime urged Governor Roosevelt to invoke a little-known section of the city charter which empowers the Governor of New York to remove the Mayor of New York City. Many another prominent body joined in demanding a thoroughgoing municipal cleanup: The Citizens Union under Henry Morgenthau, onetime Ambassador to Turkey; the Public Affairs Committee under Socialist Norman Thomas; the City Affairs Committee under Rev. John Haynes Holmes and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise. The Greater New York Federation of Churches next threw its weight into the movement, and then the New York Board...