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Members of the staff of New York's District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey, who is gradually emerging into national prominence as a righteous combination of St. George and Charlie Chan, at 3 one morning last week rapped on the door of a shabby apartment in West Philadelphia. "Open up," they said, "this...
Spectacled, wide-mouthed George Denny, who acknowledges as his chief inspiration Nicholas Murray Butler, says he bars stuffed shirts and academicians from his programs. He also says he would rather put on Author Will Durant than Philosopher John Dewey. He admits his debates supply listeners with little information but conceives his role as that of stimulator. Mr. Denny wants his 3,000,000 auditors to be open-minded above all. An indefatigable user of hair tonics, bald Mr. Denny...
Thus on the night of October 24 to thousands of radio listeners came the dramatic voice of New York's youthful District Attorney-Nominee Thomas Edmund Dewey. In the subsequent account of the underworld connections of Tammany's Marinelli, Mr. Dewey charged him not only with hobnobbing with jailbirds with such names as "Socks" Lanza and "Scutch"' Indelicate, but with harboring, as his chauffeur, a notorious fugitive from justice named Charles Falci. It was as detailed and exciting a story as any other installment in the gangbusting radio series that had made Lawyer Dewey the saltiest campaigner...
...Dewey's Tammany targets expected that his campaign speeches would be forgotten after his resounding victory at the polls last month, they were soon disillusioned. Day after election, an organization christened as the "Joint Committee on the County Clerk" wrote Democratic Governor Herbert H. Lehman suggesting that if Mr. Marinelli was all that Mr. Dewey explicitly said he was, he was not fit to hold office even until January i. Democrat Lehman, often accused of an opportunistic friendliness for Tammany, asked Mr. Marinelli to answer the charges within a week. Shunning reporters both at his slum offices...
Businesslike Mr. Dewey not only did so, but, as the special prosecutor whom Mr. Lehman had appointed to head the Legislature's New York racket inquiry, last fortnight he suddenly subpoenaed some 400 scared Marinelli heelers to appear before the grand jury. At this point a public hearing like that which trapped hapless Mayor Jimmy Walker began to seem to Tammany chieftains a worse prospect than giving Mr. Dewey a second scalp from their wigwam. Last week Boss Marinelli wrote Governor Lehman two letters. In one he resigned the office he would have held for only 28 days more...