Word: mulrooney
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Three cheers for Emanuel H. Lavine and his book The Third Degree (TIME, Nov. 3). He surely knows just what he is talking about and the New York Police Commissioner Mulrooney can scarcely hope to honestly deny its contents...
When newshawks showed Lavine's book to New York's Police Commissioner E. P. Mulrooney he smiled, shook his head. Said he: "I deny positively that anything like that goes on in the New York Police Department...
...Association." He summoned leaders from all six Tongs, got them to sign an agreement whereby each will appoint delegates to a new committee of arbitration, whose decisions they pledge to abide by. They also agreed to let New York City's Irish-U. S. Police Commissioner, Edward Pierce Mulrooney, arbitrate any case decided by the committee to the dissatisfaction of the disputants, thus gave him supreme judicial power. The committee's chairman will be J. S. Tow, Acting Chinese Consul General in New York, who, not so occupied with tourists & immigrants as other consuls general, may devote much...
Commissioner Alcock, like New York City's new Commissioner Mulrooney, is an oldtime, silent, line policeman. His reply to the Mayor's instruction was this : "There'll be no dillydallying by the Police Department. . . . There has been too much talk. I want results. . . . We need 12,000 men. We have about 5,000. . . . People want uniformed policemen on the streets. Uniformed men will prevent crime. . . . It is easier to prevent than solve...
...Hall table behind which stood Commissioner Whalen, police dignitaries and the Mayor. "Now, now," chided Mr. Walker, "this isn't Wanamaker's bargain counter." Then he announced that Mr. Whalen had resigned, was returning to Wanamaker's. In his place was put Assistant Chief Inspector of Detectives Edward Pierce Mulrooney, 57, a tightlipped, hardboiled police officer, who joined the force in 1896, answering an advertisement by then Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt Sr. Said the Mayor to Commissioner Mulrooney: "It was your devotion to duty which led you away from spectacle and sensation that prompted me to select you 'for this...