On Jan. 16, 1929, former New York Governor Alfred E. Smith addressed a nationwide radio audience. He asked supporters for donations to help the Democratic Party retire the debt from his unsuccessful Presidential campaign in 1928. Smith’s Lower East Side accent had hurt him, yet the reports were that this speech was received enthusiastically around Read More
On Jan. 16, 1929, former New York Governor Alfred E. Smith addressed a nationwide radio audience. He asked supporters for donations to help the Democratic Party retire the debt from his unsuccessful Presidential campaign in 1928. Smith’s Lower East Side accent had hurt him, yet the reports were that this speech was received enthusiastically around Read More
When word broke that the legendary Judge Crater case may be solved soon, I received phone calls from friends telling me that my grandfather was all over the news. But my grandfather wasn’t Joseph Force Crater. My grandfather was Maurice Bloch—a name that’s vanished from New York’s political scene, remembered only by Robert Morgenthau, filmmaker Read More
