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James John ("Jimmy") Walker, New York's glib little Mayor, returned last week from his California vacation, during which the City Affairs Committee had requested Governor Roosevelt to remove him from office (TIME, March 23). Ostentatiously the Mayor got to work. The newspapers carried pictures of him wearing horn-rimmed...
During the hearing, smart Lawyer Samuel Untermyer, stanch Tammany man who always wears an orchid in his buttonhole, objected to the admission of privately secured testimony, accused Referee Seabury of "prejudging the case." Tall, patrician Inquisitor Seabury flushed and said quietly: "I consider that remark grossly impertinent."
Colyumist Broun recalled how the late Editor Frank Irving Cobb of the late New York World, after campaigning bitterly against the mayoralty (1910-13) of William Jay Gaynor, took back nothing when Gaynor died (Sept. 12, 1913). Cobb wrote: "What the World said of William J. Gaynor . . . after Tammany had...
Inquisitor Seabury, 57, a ruddy, silver-haired, liberal patrician, has gone about his inquisitorial duties since last summer with such ability and unassuming good grace that in some quarters last week there was talk of drafting him for Fusion Mayor in 1933. Graduated from Columbia University and New York Law...
Lounging in flowered silk pajamas 3,000 miles away on the estate of Tammany Counsel Samuel Untermyer. Mayor Walker dismissed the accusations as "old stuff." Although he failed to make further comment, his home town press played-up stories about the beneficent effect of California sunshine on his health, accompanied...