Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smart gamblers had shifted from Numbers to betting on the outcome of New York's trial-of-the-year, of Tammany Leader Jimmy Hines as the political fixer of the Numbers racket (TIME, Aug. 29, et ante). Mr. Hines was getting no more breaks than ambitious young Republican Prosecutor Thomas Edmund Dewey could help. Highlight of the trial's third week was a detailed account of Defendant Hines's connections with the racket told by nosey State Witness George Weinberg...
...conviction but Republicans, convinced that the trial will not be finished before the convention, were reported willing to take the gamble. Result: Democratic leaders tried to persuade either Governor Herbert Lehman or Senator Robert Wagner to abandon his Senatorial campaign, and stand for Governor against Jimmy Hines's prosecutor...
...interested matrons attended the opening. One, who had often been a spectator in courts, was the prosecutor's trim, Junior-Leaguish wife. The other had never attended a trial. She it was who, in 1903 (year after Thomas Edmund Dewey was born in Owosso, Mich.), as the prettiest girl in Tammany's Eleventh District, married an ambitious young Irish blacksmith, James J. Hines. She appeared in court, flanked by her bulky sons and their pretty-girl wives, only because Jimmy Hines was in the worst trouble of his rough-&-tumble career. Like Mrs. Dewey she went...
...insurance and contracting business run by Sons James Jr. and Philip (Harvard). Tom Dewey last week set out to prove that a great deal of it came from a regular levy on Harlem's numbers bankers. Leaning toward the jury box and talking in his customary confidential tones, Prosecutor Dewey explained to a blue ribbon jury,* consisting of one Democrat, four Republicans, two Independents, five gentlemen who had not bothered to register, the basic facts of the numbers game. In this simple lottery a player can pick any number from 000 to 999 and place a bet from...
...intricate cases or cases involving homicide, and only with the approval of the presiding judge. Blue ribbon jurors, drawn by lot from the regular jury panel, are examined in person by the Commissioner of Jurors. Qualifications: alertness, more than average intelligence, more than $250 worth of personal property. Prosecutor Dewey has had blue ribbon juries in all his major racket cases...