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...stations over the U. S. In the rain at Washington Navy Yard a party of Marines landed from Anacostia, staged a smoky mock battle with a party of sailors dressed in straw sombreros and checkered shirts to suggest Central American Insurrectos. At Philadelphia Navy Yard visitors clambered over Admiral Dewey's old, grey flagship, the Olympia. Preparedness messages were delivered on Boston Common by James Roosevelt, at the Navy Department by droopy-mustached Secretary Claude A. Swanson, in Atlanta by the Navy's Chief of Naval Operations, Iowa-born Admiral William D. Leahy. But seadogs old & young, already...
...with the Tammany District Attorney's Office. Here such grave inefficiency was found, and such evident connection between the prosecution agency and the gangsters who four years ago held the City in their grip, that Governor Lehman set up a Special Prosecutor, Thomas E. Dewey, with all powers necessary to clean up the town. Mr. Dewey's record for rooting out the gangsters at the top, and for getting his suspect convicted, has been nothing short of phenomenal, far better, indeed, than the, more highly publicized Federal Bureau of G-Man Hoover...
Briefly, the Dewey record goes like this. He struck from the first at the loan shark racket, and by convicting twenty-one usurers put a million-dollar a week business out of commission. Then, in rapid time, the system of organized vice controlled by 'Lucky' Luciano felt the knife, and after extraditing Luciano from Hot Springs, Arkansas, where that worthy went to hide out, Dewey convicted him for a prison stretch of thirty-five to fifty years. Then the restaurant trade, which had been victimized by a series of fake labor unions and "protective associations" to the tune of millions...
...years as Special Prosecutor, Mr. Dewey has not unearthed any more conclusive proof of the unregenerate nature of Tammany Hall than in his speech last Sunday in which he showed that Albert Marinelli, Tammany leader in the 2nd Assembly District and New York County Clerk, was a personal friend of "Lucky" Luciano and actually went on a party with him in Chicago while Luciano was hiding from Dewey's investigation. To this accusation, Mr. Marinelli, a shadowy figure with a large estate on Long Island, has no comment to make, and it is indeed hard to see how there...
...that dealing with the enforcement of law and order. And yet the Tammany candidate for Mayor seriously asks an electorate to vote for his ticket on the plea that Fusion has ruined the City. Rather, "to end banditry" and make parks and streets safe for all, the LaGuardia and Dewey team deserves to be sent in with a large majority...