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...former Mayor O'Dwyer's unexpired term. City Council President Vincent Impellitteri, acting mayor since O'Dwyer resigned two months ago, was denied the Democratic nomination and surprised everyone by running as an independent. The Democrats chose instead Judge Ferdinand-Pecora, while the G.O.P. named State Industrial Commissioner Edward Corsi...
Notes on U.S. customs, habits, manners & morals, as reported in the U.S. press: ¶ New York's Industrial Commissioner Edward Corsi gave his answer to the old question of how much to tip. His scale of average tips: taxi drivers, 12%; barbers, 15%; waiters, 71%; bootblacks, 5? a shine...
Between 1931 and 1934 New York's Commissioner of Immigration had been Edward Corsi, a distinguished member of Manhattan's Italian colony. In February 1934, Commissioner Corsi resigned to take over the even more difficult task of administering New York City's poor relief. Appointed as his successor was white-haired, bushy-browed Rudolph Reimer, a serious hard-working Democrat who had retired from the coal business...
...squadron of War-trained pilots still loafing in Paris cafes. Back to Warsaw he took ten crack flyers. Major Cedric E. Fauntleroy had been chief test and ordnance pilot of the A. E. F., later flew with Rickenbacker's famed "Hat in the Ring Squadron." Captain Edward C. Corsi had been a chasse pilot for France. Several had served with Britain's Royal Flying Corps. The Polish unit with which they were merged was commanded by Germany's Wartime chief of air forces in Turkey, Col. Ludomil Rayski, now head of Poland's air force...