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Since last January, when Mayor La-Guardia turned him loose on New York City's government as Commissioner of Investigation, apple-faced young William B. Herlands, former assistant to racket-busting District Attorney Tom Dewey, has been turning up crockeries great & small. Last week Digger Herlands unearthed something neat in political rackets, an antique...
Died. Karel Capek, 48, No. 1 dramatist of Czecho-Slovakia; of influenza; in Prague. A student of philosophy (William James, John Dewey), Karel Capek played a leading part in introducing pragmatism and U. S. literature to the intellectual world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. At the same time he wrote two plays, The World We Live In and R. U. R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), protesting against mechanization and the technical perfection of Western civilization. As an exponent of modern Czech literature and a supporter of ex-President Benes, he was in disgrace during the last few months...
...John Dewey...
...missing assets had grown to $18,000,000-$10,000,000 in inventories and $8,000,000 in accounts receivable. Five investigations began-by the SEC, Department of Justice, U. S. Treasury, New York State Attorney General John J. Bennett Jr., and New York County District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey. Mr. Bennett got started first, sent a man to Canada to try to find some warehouses...
...Simpson had raced to Washington by milk train and plane from Albany, after a night session of his State executive committee at which he had fought for the National Committee seat of Charles Dewey Hilles. retired. Mr. Simpson's failure to elect Tom Dewey by getting out a bigger New York City vote for him was one of the reasons the State committee was reluctant to nominate him for the national body. Other reason was the method he had chosen to get out such city votes as he did: he had "played ball" with the local American Labor Party...