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...three weeks prostitutes and bawds had paraded through the courtroom, while Special Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey questioned them on the details of their occupation (TIME, May 25). No old-fashioned vice trial was this. The prosecutor had been appointed at the request of New York's Governor Lehman, not to wipe out an ancient profession but to abolish rackets. Lucania and his prosperous executives had terrorized a large section of the city's dealers in flesh, had put prostitution on a chain-store basis...
...sleek Businessman Lucania sat with reptilian calm, his high-powered lawyers launched into a 13-hour summation for the defense, attacking the credibility of the prosecution's witnesses, declaring that strumpets had been taken on wild parties by the state in order to induce them to testify. Mr. Dewey contented himself with a seven-hour answer. Urging the jury not to spare Lucania, he declared: "Unless you are willing to convict the top man you might as well acquit everyone...
...Rather than lock up the jurymen, Justice McCook went to sleep in his chambers. Lucania and his friends lay down in their cells. Their wives went home. Just after 5 the next morning the judge was roused from his sleep. Lucania & friends shuffled into court in wrinkled clothes. Prosecutor Dewey, on the other hand, bounced in with a fresh shave...
Having convicted the racketeers, Special Prosecutor Dewey straightway last week went after the racketeers' lawyers. To the New York City Bar Association he sent the names and misdeeds of two lawyers who had done legal work for last week's defendants...
...Yale in 1921, however, James Rowland Angell was, as in a measure he still remains, an unknown indeed. Faculty scientists heard that he had been a psychologist, pupil of John Dewey at Michigan, student of William James and Josiah Royce at Harvard, one of the first of the bright young men who went to Germany to explore what was, at the century's turn, an exciting new field of learning. Administrative officers of the University knew that President-elect Angell had long since given up pure scholarship to become faculty dean and acting president of the University of Chicago...