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...court recessed for Labor Day week end. Prosecutor Dewey announced that "the people's case is rapidly drawing to a conclusion...
...Tammany Leader Jimmy Hines. on trial as political fixer for New York City's numbers racket (TIME. Sept. 5), had heard a long string of criminals readily admitting bribery, thuggery and perjury in building their $20,000,000-a-year gambling racket. Last week Prosecutor Thomas Edmund Dewey called two more witnesses embarrassing to the defense...
John F. Curry, 64, was big boss of Tammany Hall from 1929 to 1934. White haired and benign, the old Tammanyite walked to the stand without a glance at powerful old Tammanyite Hines. who helped to make him boss and later led the movement to oust him. Prosecutor Dewey had been trying to show that one of Hines's great services to the numbers racketeers was his ability to get troublesome detectives transferred to other duties. He asked Mr. Curry...
Another witness was Julius Richard ("Dixie") Davis, the racket's smooth young mouthpiece, whose career at the bar, a polar opposite to that of 36-year-old Thomas Edmund Dewey, was fully as precocious. Having turned State's evidence in hope of saving his hide, Davis answered most Dewey questions with a bright "That's right." He described his association with the racket's murdered boss, Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer, and with Jimmy Hines. At 27. said Dixie, he had five lawyers working for him and paid $7,500 a year in office rent. He described...
...Justice that there is real competition in the cinema business is a competitive race to the screen with accounts of how a mettlesome, unsleeping special prosecutor breaks up rackets. In I Am the Law, Edward G. Robinson looks less like New York's District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey than Chester Morris did (Smashing the Rackets) or Walter Abel (Racket Busters). He plays the part of a law school professor, an authority on criminal law, absentminded, mild as milk. On a leave of absence from his teaching job he takes on the post of special prosecutor, administers it with long...