In addition, I spoke with these members of Judge Samuel Seabury’s staff: George Trosk, chief of staff; W. Bernard Richland, aide and former New York City corporation counsel; Seabury’s three nephews, Andrew Oliver, William B. Northrop, and John B. Northrop; and twenty Seabury “boys,” among them Irving Ben Cooper, Philip W. Haberman, Jr., and William G. Mulligan, all of whom played major roles in discovering Jimmy Walker’s secret accounts.
This is a selected list of relevant publications:
Allen, Oliver E. The Tiger: The Rise and Fall of Tammany Hall. Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1993.
Atkinson, Brooks. Broadway. Limelight Editions, 1985.
Bernard Bellush. Franklin D. Roosevelt as Governor of New York. Columbia University Press, 1955.
Bendiner, Robert. Just Around the Corner: A Highly Selective History of the Thirties. Harper & Row, 1967.
Berger, Meyer. The Story of The New York Times. Simon and Schuster, 1951.
Berlin, Isaiah. The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998.
Burns, James MacGregor. Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox. Harcourt, Brace, 1956.
Caro, Robert. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. Knopf, 1974.
Chambers, Walter. Samuel Seabury: A Challenge. The Century Company, 1932.
Connable, Alfred, and Edward Silberfarb. Tigers of Tammany. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1967.
Evans, Harold. The American Century. Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.
Faragher, John Mack. The American Heritage Encyclopedia of American History. Henry Holt, 1998.
Foner, Eric, and John A. Garraty. The Reader’s Companion to American History. Houghton Mifflin, 1991.
Flynn, Edward J. You’re the Boss. The Viking Press, 1947.
Fowler, Gene. Beau James: The Life and Times of Jimmy Walker. The Viking Press, 1949.
Hamburger, Philip. Mayor Watching and Other Pleasures. Rinehart, 1958.
Fuller, Hector. Abroad with Mayor Walker. Shields Publishing, 1928.
Gribetz, Louis, and Joseph Kaye. Jimmy Walker: The Story of a Personality. Dial Press, 1932.
Gunther, John. Roosevelt in Retrospect: A Profile in History. Harper & Brothers, 1950.
Heckscher, August, with Phyllis Robinson. When La Guardia Was Mayor: New York’s Legendary Years. W. W. Norton, 1978.
Jackson, Kenneth T., Editor. The Encyclopedia of New York City. Yale University Press, 1995.
Josephson, Matthew, and Hannah Josephson. Al Smith: Hero of the Cities. Houghton Mifflin, 1969.
Kennedy, William. Legs. Penguin Books, 1983.
Kluger, Richard. The Paper: The Life and Death of the New York Herald Tribune. Alfred A. Knopf, 1986.
Lankevich, George J. American Metropolis: A History of New York City. New York University Press, 1998.
Leuchtenburg, Willaim E. The FDR Years: On Roosevelt and His Legacy. Columbia University Press, 1995.
Manners, William. Patience and Fortitude: Fiorello La Guardia. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976.
Miner, Margaret, and Hugh Rawson. American Heritage Dictionary of American Quotations. Penguin, 1997.
Mitgang, Herbert. The Man Who Rode the Tiger: The Life and Times of Judge Samuel Seabury. Fordham University Press, 1996.
Northrop, William B., and John B. Northrop. The Insolence of Office: The Story of the Seabury Investigations. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1932.
Phillips, Cabell. From the Crash to the Blitz, 1929–1939. Fordham University Press, 1999.
Roosevelt, Eleanor. This I Remember. Harper & Brothers, 1949.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt. With a Special Introduction and Explanatory Notes by President Roosevelt. Five volumes, 1928–1936. Random House, 1938.
Sann, Paul. The Lawless Decade. Crown, 1957.
Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr. The Age of Roosevelt. Vol. 2: The Coming of the New Deal. Houghton Mifflin, 1960.
Siegfried, André. America Comes of Age. Harcourt, Brace, 1927.
Tugwell, Rexford G. The Democratic Roosevelt. Doubleday, 1957.
Walsh, George. Gentleman Jimmy Walker: Mayor of the Jazz Age. Praeger, 1974.
Ward, Geoffrey C. A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt. Harper & Row, 1989.
Whalen, Grover A. Mr. New York: The Autobiography of Grover A. Whalen. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1955.
Wilson, Edmund. A Literary Chronicle: 1920–1950. Anchor Books, 1956.
Acknowledgments
A warm salute to the editors, librarians, and friends who helped to inspire this book and guide it into print:
Bruce K. Nichols, senior editor, The Free Press, who saw the historical need for a fresh interpretation of the trials of Mayor Jimmy Walker against the background of the Jazz Age, Prohibition, and a political era that led to the demise of Tammany Hall and the ascendancy of Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia and Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt to the presidency. Other Free Press members who also deserve credit for creative assistance include Dan Freedberg and Jolanta Benal.
Marilyn Annan and John Moytka, dedicated and knowledgeable librarians at The New York Times; Whitney Bagmall, librarian, Columbia University law library; Miriam Bowling, curator of manuscripts, New York Public Library; W. Bernard Richland, aide to Judge Samuel Seabury, and former New York City corporation counsel; twenty members of the Seabury legal staff; Sheldon M. Harnick, lyricist, “Fiorello!; Brooks Atkinson, former New York Times drama critic and essayist; John B. Oakes, former editor of the editorial and op-ed pages, New York Times, and A. H. Raskin, deputy editor; Bethuel M. Webster, attorney, diplomat, president of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
And once again, to Shirley Mitgang, for devotion and wise counsel, and to Esther, Lee, Laura, Gina, and Caroline Mitgang and David Goodman, for rations, quarters, and inspiration.
Index
The index that appeared in the print version of this title was intentionally removed from the eBook. Please use the search function on your eReading device for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below
Acuna, Chile Mapocha
Adams, Hattie
Adler, Polly
Adonis, Frank
Advertising Club
Age of Innocence, The (Wharton)
Ager, Milton
Alice Adams (Tarkington)
Allen, Janet. See Walker, Janet Allen
Ambassador Hotel
America Comes of Age (Siegfried)
American Newspaper Guild
American Tragedy, An
Anti-Saloon League
Arrowsmith (Lewis)
Asbury, Herbert
Atkinson, Brooks
Atlanta Constitution
Attell, Abe
Auden, W. H.
Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens, The
Babbitt (Lewis)
Baer, Arthur (“Bugs”)
Ball, Ernest R.
Baltimore Sun
Bankers Club
Banton, Joab H.
Barrymore, Ethel
Barrymore, Lionel
Belasco Theatre
Belmont Park
Bender, Albert
Berle, Adolf A., Jr.
Berlin, Irving
Berlin, Isaiah
Berry, Charles W.
Beyer, Robert S.
Beyer Tile Company
Biltmore Hotel
Black, William H.
Blackstone, Sir William
Block, Billy
Block, Max
Block, Paul
Blue, Wednesday
Blumenthal, A. C. (“Blumey”)
Bogart, Humphrey
Bolton, Guy
Bonagure, Guy
Bontemps, Arna
Bonus Army of World War I veterans
Boston Herald
Bourdet, Edouard
Brenner, Dorothy
Bridge of San Luis Rey, The (Wilder)
Brodsky, Louis B.
<
br /> Brooklyn Bar Association
Brooklyn College
Brooklyn Dodgers
Broun, Heywood
Bruckner, Henry
Buffalo Evening News
Bunk of 1926
Burke, Nan Walker (sister of Jimmy)
Burns, James MacGregor
Calvary Cemetery
Campbell’s Funeral home
Cantor, Maurice F.
Cappel, Peter
Captive, The
Cardozo, Benjamin N.
Cather, Willa
Cayuga Democratic Club
Central Trades and Labor Council
Chevalier, Maurice
Chicago Tribune
Chicago White Sox
Church of the Annunciation
Cincinnati Reds
Citizens Union
City Affairs Committee
City Club of New York
City College of New York
Clean Books Bill
Cleveland, Grover
Clinton, DeWitt
Cloth Shrinkers Union
Coen, Irene Luzzatto
Collier’s
Collins, George
Columbia University
Law School
Columbus, Christopher
Combs, Earle
Comden, Betty
Commodore Hotel
Communist Party
Community Church
Compton, Arthur H.
Compton, Betty (“Monk”)
charges against
death of
described
divorce from Walker
in Oh, Kay!
married life with Walker
marries Walker
as mistress of Walker
Compton, Florence
Conboy, Martin
Connolly, Maurice E.
Coolidge, Calvin
Cooper, Irving Ben
Copeland, Royal S.
Cordes, John
Cosden Oil
Costello, Frank
Cotton Club
Coughlin, Father Charles E.
Coward, Noël
Cradle Snatchers, The
Crain, Thomas C. T.
Crater, Joseph Force
Croker, Richard
Cross, Guernsey T.
Cruise, Michael J.
Cullen, Countee
Curley, James
Curry, John Francis
testimony of
Walker’s post-trial attempt to run in special mayoral election and
Curtin, John J.
post-trial personal attack on Roosevelt and Seabury
Cuvillier, Louis
Davis, Matthew L.
Dawn, Elaine
Debs, Eugene V.
Delmonico’s Restaurant
Dempsey, Jack
Depression of the 1930s
described
Hoover and
Roosevelt and
DeSapio, Carmine
De Witt Clinton Hotel
Diamond, Jack (“Legs”)
Dilagi, Michael
Doctors Hospital
Dodsworth (Lewis)
Dos Passos, John
Doyle, Dr. William F. (“Horse Doctor”)
Dreiser, Theodore
Dugan, Joe
Dugan, William
Duke of Duluth, The
East Hampton Star
Ederle, Gertrude
Einstein, Albert
Einstein, Isadore (“Izzy”)
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Elmer Gantry (Lewis)
Empire State building
Empire Theatre
Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre
Equitable Coach Company
Equitable Trust Company of New York
Evening Graphic
Fageol, Frank R.
Fairfield Hotel
Fallon, William J.
Farewell to Arms, A (Hemingway)
Farley, James A.
Walker invited to Roosevelt White House
Farley, Thomas (“Tin Box”)
Thomas M. Farley Association
Faulkner, William
Fay, Larry
Fay, Lorraine
Fears, Peggy
Federation Bank and Trust Company
Ferber, Edna
Fertig, Maldwin
Fiorello!
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Fitzgerald, Zelda
Flood, Patrick
Flynn, Edward J.
Foley, James A.
Ford, Henry
Foster, William Z.
Fowler, Gene
Franco, Francisco
Frankfurter, Felix
Free Milk Fund for Babies
Free Synagogue
Friars Club
Friedman, Jeann
Friendly Sons of St. Patrick
Front Page, The
Fuller, Hector
Fulton Fish Market
Fusion Party
Gaiety, the
Gardner, Charles W.
Garibaldi, Giuseppe
Garner, John Nance
Gehrig, Lou
General Theological Seminary
General Tire and Rubber Company
George III, king of England
George V, prince of Wales
Gershwin, George
Gershwin, Ira
Girones, Jose
Glynn, John J.
Godkin, Edwin L.
God’s Trombones (Johnson)
Goering, Hermann
Golden Rule Pleasure Club
“Good-by Eyes of Blue” (Walker)
Good Government advocates (“Goo-Goos”)
Goodier, James H.
Gopher Gang
Gordon, Vivian
Grabowski, John
Grand Central Terminal
Grand Street Boys Association
Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald)
Green, Adolph
Green, John
Greenpoint People’s Regular Organization of the Fifteenth Assembly District
Groton
Guinan, Texas (Mary Louise Cecilia)
Gunther, John
Gustavus Adolphus, crown prince of Sweden
Guys and Dolls
Billy Haas’s Restaurant
Haberman, Philip
Hagerty, James A.
“Hail, Hail, the Gang’s All Here”
Hammond, Fred
Hampden, Walter
“Happy Days Are Here Again”
Harding, Warren G.
Harlem Renaissance
Harnick, Sheldon M.
Harper’s Weekly
Harrison, William H.
Harvard University
Law School
Hastings, John A.
Hayes, Patrick Cardinal
Hearst, Mrs. William Randolph
Hearst, William Randolph
Roosevelt supported by
on Walker
Hecht, Ben
Hemingway, Ernest
Herwitz, Oren
Hill, David B.
Hines, Jimmy
Hitler, Adolf
Hofstadter, Samuel
described
Seabury investigation and
Holmes, John Haynes
Home to Harlem (McKay)
Hoover, Herbert
Bonus Army of World War I veterans and
Depression of the 1930s and
1928 presidential campaign
1932 presidential campaign
Prohibition and
Hoover, J. Edgar
Hornblow, Arthur, Jr.
Hotel Astor
Hotel Owners Association
Hotel Ten Eyck
Hotsy Totsy Club
House, Edward
Howe, Louis
Hoyt, Waite
Hudson Dusters
Hughes, Charles Evans
Hughes, Langston
Hurston, Zora Neale
Hylan, John F. (“Red
Mike”)
New York Times on
“I Like Your Way” (Walker)
Imperial Theatre
International Workers of the World
Interstate Trust Company
Irving, Washington
Jackson, Andrew
Jacobs, Joe
Jamaica Racetrack
Jazz Age, described
Jazz Singer, The
Jefferson, Thomas
Jessel, George
Jimmy the Well-dressed Man (Kaufman)
Johnson, James Weldon
Johnston, Alva
Jolson, Al
Jones Beach
Kaufman, George S.
Kearney, Philip
Kelly, “Honest John”
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald
Kennedy, Joseph P.
Kern, Jerome
Kerrigan, Charles F.
Knappen, Theodore
Koenig, Mark
Kosciuszko, Thaddeus
Kresel, Isidor Jacob
described
Seabury investigation and
Krock, Arthur
Ku Klux Klan
Kurzman, “Tough Jake”
La Follette, Robert
La Guardia, Achille
La Guardia, Fiorello H.
Bonus Army of World War I veterans and
City Hall, Walker’s visit to
described
elected mayor
Fiorello!
Fusion Party and
garment industry appointment for Walker
legacy
mayoral campaign, unsuccessful
Prohibition and
Roosevelt compared to
Seabury, supported by
Tammany Hall reform efforts
U.S. Conference of Mayors, as president of
Walker compared to, by Robert Moses
Lanza, Joseph (“Socks”)
Lardner, Ring
LaSalle School
Lawrence, D. H.
Lawrence, Gertrude
Lazzeri, Tony
Lee, Robert E.
Legal Aid Society
Lehman, Herbert H.
Levy, George B.
Lewis, Sinclair
Liberty League
Lincoln, Abraham
Lindbergh, Charles A.
Lindbergh, Charles II
Lindemann, Leo “Lindy”
Lindemann, Mrs. Leo
Lindy’s
Lippmann, Walter
“Little Augie”
“Little Tin Box” (Harnick)
Livingston, Nick
Long, Huey
Lopez, Vincent
Louise, princess of Sweden
Low, Seth
Luciano, Lucky
Lulu Belle
MacArthur, Charles
Once Upon a Time in New York Page 27