breadinquiry

My colonoscopy was was scheduled for 8:00 AM...it's now NOON!

This is likely the "William Muchenheim of the Hotel Astor" called as a witness in the New York Attorney General's inquiry into whether there had been a criminal conspiracy with regard to grain and bread, the price of which had risen sharply. The hearings began at the Attorney General's office, 299 Broadway, on Feb. 16, 1915. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A03E2D61538E633A... However, it seems both Bain and the Times got the spelling wrong. The two Muschenheim brothers, William C., and Frederick A., developed owned and ran the Hotel Astor, which in this era grew to occupy a full city block in what is now called Times Square. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Astor_(New_York). A detailed obituary, telling the story of how he arrived in the U.S. as an immigrant from Germany and worked his way up through the restaurant industry to accumulate great wealth, is in the October 26, 1918 New York Times: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70A13F93E5D147A9...

Maybe! but he still looks like a waiting patient!

One of several state, federal and local inquiries triggered by the rapid rise in wheat and bread prices in early 1915: "STATE TO EXPOSE BREAD CONSPIRACY; Attorney General Asks Leiter and Patten to Testify at Inquiry to be Held Here. The State inquiry to determine whether the increased prices of bread, flour and wheat have been due to criminal conspiracy, will be begun on Tuesday [2/16/15] at the office of the Attorney General at 299 Broadway, this city. Attorney General E.E. Woodbury announced yesterday that Justice Rudd of the Supreme Court in Albany County had appointed ex-Senator Myer Nussbaum as referee to take testimony. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E02EFD6113EE733A...

New York's deputy attorney general, involved in the state hearings about conspiracy among New York's wholesale bakeries.

From a geneaology site: "Alfred Leroy Becker married Eulabee Dix, a noted artist, in 1910. The marriage produced 2 children, a son Phillip Dix Becker b. June 4, 1912 and a daughter Joan Lillian Antoinnette Becker, b. February 13, 1914. The marriage ended in a bitter divorce in 1926. Eulabee Dix was born in St. Louis, MO, 1879 and died in June 1961 at Waterburybury, CT. Alfred Becker married Mrs. Mary Cecelia Hawkins (often referred to as Daisy) in 1933 and adopted her son George Vincent Becker. Alfred Leroy Becker died at home at 2121 Cedar Ave in the Bronx, NY at the age of 70 on July 13, 1948. Alfred Leroy Becker was a noted attorney of his time and served as Deputy Attorney General for the State of New York Southern District (New York City) 1915-1919. He was the author of several noted law texts, Medical Jurisprudence, 1910 and Forged Checks and Drafts, 1927, both still in use today." www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyschoha/abecker1940.html

He was also a candidate for the Republican nomination for New York Attorney General, in the primary on September 3, 1918.