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Manor. It just can't be touched.”

So after the first few weeks he gave up. He had an idea of holding public office hours there at least once a month. After the first couple of them he had to give it up because the Art Commission got so nervous. Also they pointed out that so many people came that it put an undue strain on the stairways and on the structure of the building. They had reinforced the first floor, but they hadn't reinforced the carrying beams on the second because they didn't anticipate great crowds on the second floor ever.

However, on the next New Year's Day, I think, and at least twice after that, the Governor held a public reception in the City Hall. The hours were rather limited. They came in on the ground floor, were taken up to the second floor to be received by the Governor and he received them in the doorway of the Governor's room, so that they didn't go in. They were taken up in groups of twenty so that there wouldn't be any load on the stairway. When that twenty were going down, twenty more came up. Some of us who were in his Cabinet and his friends were there.

Governor Roosevelt appointed Samuel Seabury as Moreland Act Commissioner to look into the scandals that were developing in August 1930. The Governor had coped with the scandals by the time of the gubernatorial election by the appointment