Busy last fortnight was Grover Aloysius Whalen, newly-appointed Police Commissioner of the largest city in the U. S.
The major Whalen accomplishment was decentralization of the force. The major lack of accomplishment seemed to be a lack of tangible progress in the Rothstein murder case, which occasioned the Whalen appointment.
Whalen Days. Bandits entered a Brooklyn home near midnight, four men were killed in resultant battle. At 3 a. m. appeared Commissioner Whalen, "worked on the case" till 8 a. m. He then attended 9 o'clock mass in Manhattan. He then reviewed 800 Postal Telegraph...
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