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Inspired by what happened when Governor Herbert Lehman gave young Thomas Edmund Dewey a free hand to clean up New York County (Manhattan) as special prosecutor three years ago. pugnacious little Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia this year got a Dewey of his own for New York City's five far-flung boroughs. Created under the new city charter was a $10,000 job, the Mayor's Commissioner of Investigation. Picked for it was a plump young Brooklyn lawyer, William B. Herlands, 32 to Lawyer Dewey's 36 and equally diligent, who had worked with Tom Dewey...
Career: The eighth child of Galena's postmaster and chief Republican little-wig, Dewey Short was named for the hero of the contemporary battle of Manila Bay. He went to work as a straw-hatted, barefoot youngster delivering ice and baggage by mulecart to pay for his education. Perhaps the most, if not the best, educated member of the House, he has studied at Baker University (Baldwin, Kans.), Harvard, the University of Berlin, Heidelberg, Oxford. To pay his way, he worked not only as a drayman but as a teacher of philosophy, a lecturer, for one summer...
...House Dewey Short has an almost model anti-New Deal voting record (only major New Deal legislation he has voted for: Social Security...
Convivial until he married Gladys Helen Hughes of the Library of Congress staff last year, Dewey Short now spends most of his evenings at home preparing lectures to supplement his salary. His chief political cross: his brother Leonard, who was killed trying to break jail in Muskogee, Okla. after having been convicted for a grocery store robbery...
...alliance entre les Etats Unis et la France a triomphe!" Last program is a grand roundup of U. S. noises, including the roar of "les chutes du Niagara" birds twittering, a bear's grunt. Coney Island's tinkles and cries, the voice of Monsieur Thomas Dewey...