Day With District Attorney Whitman
Lloyd D. Willis profiles Charles S. Whitman New York County District Attorney, detailing a 10 am to midnight workday in the Criminal Courts Building. The piece covers his routine, staff, high‑profile cases, and relentless pace across indictments, bids for justice, and contract graft probes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles S. Whitman
New York County
Empire State
District Attorney's
Criminal Law Department
Criminal Courts
Franklin Street
Whitman
Marguerite Deterling
James A. Delehanty
Delehanty
Supreme Court
Sulzer
Bill
Louis Hoffman
Louis
McAdoo
Mr. Whitman
Grand Jury
Becker
Herman Rosenthal
Frederick Groehl
Rose, Schepps
Webber
Groehl
Dizzy
Gatun Locks Defenses Prove Adequate In Secret Tests
In a 1914 assessment, the Atlantic battleship fleet under Rear Admiral Nathaniel R. Usher tested Gatun locks defenses. Data showed the terrain blocks direct fire from open sea, prompting Goethals to extend the breakwater. Plans include 20,000 yard range mortars and heavy guns at Margarita island, Toro point, and Manzanilla point to guard the canal. Gatun lake will cover 167 square miles, forming the canal summit and enabling 25 mile ocean to ocean transit. Walton Williams.
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Atlantic
Panama Canal
Gatun
Atlantic Battleship Fleet
Nathaniel R. Usher
Coast Artillery
Canal Commission
Joint
Army and Navy Board
Navy
Goethals
Toro Point
Navy Department
Colon
Margarita Island
Manzanilla Point
Pacific
Toboga Island
Canal
Panama
Garrison
Isthmus
Chagres Valley
Chagres
Walton Williams
Dimensions of Great Gat in Locks
Dimensions of Great Gat in Locks list extensive measurements for the canal structure. It details overall length and width, concrete volume, wall widths, chamber sizes, water depths, gate dimensions, gate leaf lengths, and gate weights.
Coxey Plans Washington Invasion March For May 22 1914
General Coxey revealed a new nationwide unemployed march to Washington set to begin April 16 from Massillon. He claimed millions could join, predicting vast food and shelter support en route and insisted a conspiracy of wealthy interests drives unemployment and banking policy. He floated a possible suffragette division led by a nationally known woman.
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Eneral Jacob 8
Coxey
Washington
National Capitol
Boston
Seattle
New Orleans
Detroit
Massillon
General Coxey
New York
Waldorf-Astoria
Generalissimo
United States
Wall Street
Interstate Commerce Commission
Chicago
Congress
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Lloyd D. Willis
American Press Association
Army
Porto Rico
War Department
Gatun Locks
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