Word: attorney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most Dewey listeners last week knew the broad outlines of the story of Dewey the Racket-Buster: his appointment, at 28, as Chief Assistant United States Attorney, the conviction of Beer Baron Waxey Gordon, the runaway grand jury that balked at the frail measures of a lethargic Tammany prosecutor, Governor Lehman's appointment of Tom Dewey (married, father of one, earning $50,000 a year) as Special Prosecutor - and then the bang-up conclusion with Racketeers Luciano, Pennochio, Coulcher, et al. going to jail for 15, 20, 30 to 50 years, and the linking of rackets to Tammany Hall...
...listeners had read Rupert Hughes' campaign biography of Thomas Dewey they knew all this and a good deal more: Dewey's record as District Attorney of New York, with 79% convictions in 3,253 General Sessions Court cases, 14 convictions in first-degree murder cases (six acquittals), 9,703 convictions in 14,063 misdemeanor cases, along with the head lined smashing of the policy ring, the break-up of a prostitution syndicate. Dewey the Racket-Buster drew crowds, but stories, reputation and record told little of Dewey the Presidential Candidate. And to Westerners properly suspicious...
...without giving substance to hysterical charges that he was antilabor; fought a bitter campaign for the governorship against a Jewish banker and slapped down attempts to inject anti-Semitism into the campaign; for the first time in U. S. history has made one of the 3,070 county District Attorney's offices a jumping-off place for a major-party run for the Presidency. He has a quick political eye that would be useful in a hard campaign: reading the morning paper one day a fortnight ago he spotted President Roosevelt's $9,000,000,000 error...
Cynical City. After 17 years in New York City, Thomas Dewey still bears the mark of Owosso. Newspapermen who got along fine with Jimmy Walker find him a little on the heavy side. Nor is the District Attorney a sophisticated, well-adjusted metropolitan politico like Republican National Committeeman Kenneth Simpson, who has a Matisse on his wall, Alexander Kerensky for his guest. Thomas Dewey takes his career and campaigning hard, has never been able, like most New Yorkers, to slide easily through the city's life, or pay without questioning the physical and intellectual tribute it demands. He remembers...
Said State's Attorney William G. Kerbin, commenting on the storming of the Snow Hill jail: "First we've got to find out who did it. ... It is my job to prosecute the men arrested by the sheriff. Ask him." No action could be taken until after the murder case was settled, explained Sheriff Hall, refreshed by his sleep. But "there has to be an investigation," he pronounced...