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...glinted on the flanks of horses, on fixed bayonets, trench helmets, machine guns. Watching the show, New York Citizens quite forgot the bad odor in which the paraders had been since Referee Samuel Seabury began his police and judiciary investigation last winter (TIME, Dec. 29, et seq.). But it was not only the parade which caused New Yorkers to undergo a change of heart about their police. Two days prior had taken place a front page police triumph which Police Commissioner Edward Pierce Mulrooney had called "the most sensational in my 35 years of experience...
...headed dancer had taken the city's attention from the murder of another red-headed girl-Benita Franklin Bischoff alias Vivian Gordon, vice racketeer, whose death on the eve of giving testimony against a venal officer is yet to be solved (TIME, March 9, et seq.)-Commissioner Mulrooney sneered at Crowley: "Sure he fought when he was cornered. But so does a cornered rat. . . . He never really shot it out with anyone...
...Leviathan docked at Cherbourg fortnight ago, the most distinguished member of its passenger list had contracted a slight cold. She was Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, who had just turned over her great Ophir Hall at Purchase, N. Y., to Siarn's visiting King (TIME, April 20. et seq.), had sailed away to spend her seventy-third spring in France...
...York City, still mildly horrified by the murder of Benita Franklin Bischoff alias Vivian Gordon (TIME, March 9, et seq.), received out of the East River the decomposed body of Rose Yasso, missing since February, and found by a roadside the body of a redheaded "taxi- dancer" evidently shot after a drunken brawl in an automobile. Police found all the brawlers but the murderer, who had departed hastily...
Ever since the Navy Department reprimanded him for calling Prime Minister Mussolini a hit-&-run driver (TiME, Feb. 9, et seq.), Major General Smedley Darlington ("Old Gimlet Eye") Butler, U. S. M. C., has been on the alert for international slights. Last week he thought he had found one. He thought he had caught Dantes Bellegarde, the Haitian Minister in Washington, saying that the Haitian fort for capturing which he (Butler) won the Congressional Medal of Honor, was a fictitious fort. Wrathfully General Butler appealed to the Navy Department to have this ugly blot wiped from his record...