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...looks and sounds just like Crooner Harry Richman. Blushful in his bows, but silent because he was still engaged in his second prosecution of Tammany's Jimmy Hines (which may keep his name alive this year) was New York's slim black fox, District Attorney Tom Dewey, currently the G.O.P.'s leading candidate for Presidential nomination...
...millions, and his great collection of French paintings from the product* he trademarked in 1902 and manufactured until 1930. He got his artistic taste from the sound advice of the late William Glackens (TIME, Dec. 26), from persistent study and from the inquisitive philosophy of his friend John Dewey (see p. 56). White-headed, black-browed Dr. Barnes got his temper, according to his enemies, from the devil himself. Those who have offended him the full-blooded doctor has often publicly kicked in the teeth, with obstreperous rhetoric. In 1937 it was the Pennsylvania Museum, for buying what the doctor...
President Roosevelt, incensed by what New York District Attorney Thomas Dewey discovered about Circuit Court Judge Martin T. Manton, who resigned in disgrace last fortnight (TIME, Feb. 6), instructed his Attorney General to see if any more U. S. judges were taking "loans" from litigants or otherwise besmirching their robes. Only the President politely put it the other way around: where else were efforts being made to "influence" the Federal judiciary...
...Murphy's men soon shouldered Mr. Dewey out of the headlines and gave the public another scare by landing on Judge Edwin S. Thomas of the U.S. District Court in Connecticut, who sat in a bribery case whose handling by Judge Manton is now being investigated by a grand jury. Federal agents subpoenaed Judge Thomas to appear with his books and papers but failed to catch him with the summons before he sailed for Panama on the S. S. Santa Barbara. A radio to the captain to put Judge Thomas off with the pilot brought the message: "JUDGE CONTINUING...
...Coach Al Dewey's Freshmen pucksters enter their first major contest when they face-off with the strong Princeton first-year sextet in the Boston Arena at 8:30 o'clock tonight. Victims of an 8 to 0 lacing at the hands of the strong Exeter team, the Yardlings will be out to turn the tables against the favored Tiger cubs...