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Last week U. S. Conciliator James F. Dewey with the help of Ford's Harry Bennett, whose company is a Briggs customer, got hitherto stubborn Briggs executives into a more cooperative frame of mind. Able, amiable Mr. Dewey then succeeded in settling most of the specific grievances which had caused the strike...
...interested," said Mr. Murphy, who long since had been inevitably labeled "St. Francis," "in uncovering any corrupt situation in any part of the country to which there is a Federal angle." In other words, observers cracked, Frank Murphy was going to catch crooks everywhere, while Tom Dewey jailed a few bad New Yorkers. Columnists Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner quoted Frank Murphy's good-&-great friend Franklin Roosevelt as telling a caller that before Frank Murphy got through Tom Dewey's achievements would begin to look like pretty small potatoes. Cherubic Columnists Alsop & Kintner also speculated...
...indictment shows that he is just a common thief," announced Prosecutor Dewey, abridging the principle of English and U. S. law that indictments prove nothing. The twelve counts alleged that Fritz Kuhn: 1) stole $8,907 collected at the Bund's February rally in Manhattan; 2) stole $4,424 collected to defend six Long Island Bundsters who were convicted of violating the State Civil Rights Law last July; 3) stole $565 of Bund money to move the furniture of a blonde divorcee, Mrs. Florence Camp, from Los Angeles to Manhattan;-4) stole $151 to move Mrs. Camp...
...District Attorney, which will substitute for Pepsodent's Bob Hope, program on NBC-Red this summer, is typical of the vulgate radio shows by Phillips H. Lord (Seth Parker, Gang Busters, We, the People). Racket situations are dramatized and a Dewey-style prosecuting attorney goes to work on the fictionized culprits...
...Short, dapper, arrogant, well-heeled Berle is a child prodigy who still likes to head the class. He is all at once: 1) analyst-extraordinary of corporate finance (The Modern Corporation and Private Property, 1932), 2) intimate of New York Muckraker Samuel Seabury who is backer of Republican Tom Dewey, 3) adviser to Franklin Roosevelt (whom he calls "Caesar" to his face), on everything from railroads to Munich...