CORRUPTION: Scandals of New York (Cont'd)

Last week's developments from the manifold investigations, pressed and pending, into New York City's police, judiciary and officialdom included the following:

¶ Samuel Seabury, appointed by Governor Roosevelt to hear charges made by the City Club against District Attorney Thomas C. T. Grain, began with an inquiry into Mr. Grain's handling of an investigation of the Pathe film studio fire in which eleven people lost their lives (TIME, Dec. 23, 1929).

¶ Governor Roosevelt received charges filed against Mayor James John Walker by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and Rev. John Haynes Holmes of...

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