Word: republican
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lepke as "probably the most dangerous criminal in the U. S." and posted a $25,000 reward for his capture dead or alive. Lepke was supposed to have preyed on the fur, garment, painting, trucking and other trades. After that Lepke became a pawn in a political game between Republican District Attorney Dewey, who is grooming himself for a Presidential nomination by racket-busting, and Democratic U. S. Attorney General Frank Murphy, who wanted the glory of busting Lepke himself...
Primaries of both Democratic "ins" and Republican "outs" will be over before another sheet is torn from the calendar, and the election follows in the first week of November...
Relief Rolls into Payrolls? Last week Manhattan's Republican Congressman Bruce Barton, who as a good advertising man would never try to put Business on the spot, said in Rochester: ". . . The [New Deal] heresies are being swept away; the threats [to Business] are one by one being dispelled; the responsibility now comes directly to industry. Its leaders mast banish unemployment from America . . . put men and women back to work. This is their challenge and their opportunity. . . ." The one sign vouchsafed up to last week's end indicated that Business will do very little until Congress has done much...
...Waterbury's newspapers, the Republican and American, smelled large rats. They campaigned to have Hayes & Co.'s books examined closely. When Comptroller Leary failed (by 33 votes) to get re-elected in 1937, the coalition man who replaced him soon found the rats: fat fees to favored contractors, inexplicable withdrawals from the city treasury, garbled records, false audits...
...things to all men. A violent Wilsonian Democrat (his oldest son-secretary is named Woodrow), in 1933 he was elected Philadelphia's Controller on a coalition ticket, next year supported Democrat George H. Earle for Governor of Pennsylvania, year after that was elected Mayor as a Republican, last year sought (and lost) the Democratic U. S. Senatorial nomination against Earle. As Mayor, Wilson was good, bad. Although he was twice indicted for malfeasance in office (one indictment remained last week), he saved Philadelphians $50,000,000 on the capitalization of their transit setup, beat down utility rates...