sentences:  After serving in France, he was honorably discharged in 1919 and in 1923 was commissioned a Colonel in the reserve.After he was out of office, he stayed involved with political affairs and while Richard Enright was New York City Police Commissioner (appointed by the regular Democratic Mayor John Francis Hylan), Waldo served for a time as a special deputy but resigned in September 1924 to organize the Coolidge Nonpartisan League, a step that "marked his formal renunciation of Tammany Hall in favor of the Republican Party.