Island of the Damned
“The investigation, which had been recommended by U.S Attorney Charles Tuttle and backed by Governor Roosevelt, who endorsed Judge Seabury’s appointment, received enthusiastic support from the New York Bar Association. It also had wholehearted approval from the city’s reform and religious groups who were becoming more vociferous in their demands for governmental and judicial transparency. In the black days following the Wall Street crash in 1929, New York’s Patrick Cardinal Hayes had publicly de...nounced Mayor Walker’s pleasure seeking pursuits, suggesting that the current economic devastation was just retribution for Walker’s and other “wayward” leaders’ immoral ways. Walker, who garnered more headlines being a playboy than a hard working politician, had provoked outrage by raising his own annual salary from $25,000 to $40,000. When challenged about his pay, he raised further hackles by quipping: “Why that’s cheap! Think what it would cost if I worked full time”. U.S.MoreLess
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