In 1905 the Committee of Seventy, a good government group in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, selected White as their counsel.
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On his return he was elected secretary of the German-American Reform Union, New York City, and a member of the press bureau of the Committee of Seventy, which was instrumental in the overthrown of the notorious Tweed Ring.