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Idaho. It was 2:30 on a Sunday morning in quiet Nampa, Idaho. Straight down Third Street South, past the Pacific Fruit Express yards, a car raced at 70 m.p.h. It slowed to turn left on Eleventh Avenue, sailed past the historic Dewey Palace Hotel before State traffic officers caught it, arrested Vardis Fisher, 44, impassioned Idaho novelist. Writing an impassioned account for the Idaho Statesman, Author Fisher said he was taken to jail, told to put his heels together, hold his head back, and close his eyes, to determine if he was drunk, was then locked in a verminous...
When Racketbuster Tom Dewey last week wound up his biggest case, the most interesting item for New Yorkers was not the four-to-eight-year sentence imposed on Tammany Boss Jimmy Hines for selling protection at $30,000 a year to the city's "numbers" racket.† More significant was a probation report published the same day. In detailing the life & works of Convict Jimmy Hines, 62, with data gathered from Hines's family, friends, neighbors, District Attorney's office and Hines himself, the report gave ordinary citizens who often damn but seldom understand political bosses...
Among Republicans, Thomas Edmund Dewey rose from 27% (before the Hines conviction-see below) to 50%; Michigan's Vandenberg with 15% kept second place, ahead of Ohio's Taft (13%). Herbert Hoover piled up 5%, sped past Alf Landon to capture fourth place...
...Romancer Oppenheim was not his only dissatisfied client. Finding that he had a good British passport in his pocket, a magistrate sent Mr. Pinker, handcuffed to a Negro prisoner, to be held in the Tombs without bail for trial. When a grand jury handed up an indictment and Mr. Dewey's office revealed that a series of complaints had swelled Agent Tinker's alleged pilferings to $100,000, other agents wondered whether their profession was to have a Whitney Case...
...plump matron of 48, and 29-year-old Robert Eugene, who had himself renamed Alt, charged with mail fraud. Indicted with them was James Cleary, who had signed letters soliciting funds, promising repayment when the estate was secured of $200 for $1. The letters claimed that Thomas Edmund Dewey, Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone and Chairman Winthrop Aldrich of Manhattan's great Chase National Bank were all interested in the case. Though indicted, James Cleary was not tried, for the good reason that he was imaginary...