Word: manhattanized
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...exhausted. And 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...
...bribe the officers, Latore got a split of $5 or $10. If she would not pay, at least the police got credit for an arrest, plus rake-off from bondsmen and lawyers to whom they recommended the case. Sample of the many tales with which Witness Latore made Manhattan gasp: "I went back to the hotel and [Plain-clothesman John J.] Stiglin gave me something like $40 or $50 . . . because this girl was supposed to be high-priced. ... It was very hot that day and we went into this room, this girl and I, after paying for the room...
...reptile. He deserves to die. He has no right to live." Gathering of corset-makers that night hailed Judge Lyle as "our next mayor." New Move. Four agencies were at work in the nation's two largest cities last week to abate the pestilence of gangdom. In Manhattan the police department announced it would weed out criminal aliens from the daily lineup, turn them over to the Federal agency for deportation. As part of the Department of Labor's effort, Tony ("Mops") Volpe was seized on a deportation warrant in Chicago. Courts stuck to their method of jailing...
...Companionate Marriage") Lindsey received a court scolding in Manhattan last week for causing a rumpus in Bishop William Thomas Manning's cathedral (TIME, Dec. 15). Bishop Manning refused to prosecute. So subsided the affair, except for a limerick composed by Protestant Episcopal clergymen who dislike Bishop Manning. The limerick...
...Fred A. Meyer, immigrant from Berlin, proudly exhibited in Manhattan a sketch of Albert Einstein which he had made aboard the S. S. Belgenland last fortnight and to which Dr. Einstein had affixed, with his signature, the following rhyme: Dieses fette satte Schwein