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...This Dewey person's "blue-ribbon" jury: How does a "blue-ribbon" jury fit into the American picture? To use the old Stanford phrase "it looks fishy and so smells." Who is the donor of the ribbon? And who made him the holder of the ribbons...
...shifted from Numbers to betting on the outcome of New York's trial-of-the-year, of Tammany Leader Jimmy Hines as the political fixer of the Numbers racket (TIME, Aug. 29, et ante). Mr. Hines was getting no more breaks than ambitious young Republican Prosecutor Thomas Edmund Dewey could help. Highlight of the trial's third week was a detailed account of Defendant Hines's connections with the racket told by nosey State Witness George Weinberg...
...Dewey can make the Hines indictment stick, he will be the biggest Republican in New York. Accepted as final last week were Republican plans to "draft" him for the gubernatorial nomination at the party convention which meets September 28. This plum was originally contingent on Jimmy Hines's conviction but Republicans, convinced that the trial will not be finished before the convention, were reported willing to take the gamble. Result: Democratic leaders tried to persuade either Governor Herbert Lehman or Senator Robert Wagner to abandon his Senatorial campaign, and stand for Governor against Jimmy Hines's prosecutor...
While New Yorkers watched their crusading District Attorney Thomas Dewey expose a gambling racket that preys on the pennies of the poor, Chicagoans were last week being treated by their State's Attorney Thomas Courtney to a more de luxe gambling crusade. Shuttling across the sprawling city, Mr. Courtney's ax squads demolished 19 handbook (horse-race betting) offices. Other gambling dens closed their doors in fear, or installed cheap furniture and carried on furtively...
...intricate cases or cases involving homicide, and only with the approval of the presiding judge. Blue ribbon jurors, drawn by lot from the regular jury panel, are examined in person by the Commissioner of Jurors. Qualifications: alertness, more than average intelligence, more than $250 worth of personal property. Prosecutor Dewey has had blue ribbon juries in all his major racket cases...