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Democratic Deals. Though the Hanley letter had been a windfall, the Democrats' moral outrage over political deals was something new considering their own maneuverings. Boss Ed Flynn, anxious to get a big New York City vote, had arranged a nice ambassadorship for Mayor William O'Dwyer, timed just right to require a Nov. 7 New York City election for his successor. And then when Acting Mayor Vincent Impellitteri, a docile Tammanyite, had refused to get out of the way for Boss Flynn's candidate (Justice Ferdinand Pecora), Impellitteri had been offered a 14-year judgeship...
Wall Street Sunday. Dewey, angrily defensive, said that nobody had offered to pay Hanley's debts (more than $30,000), and furthermore that there was nothing wrong if someone had. Referring to books by Democratic Bosses Flynn and Farley, Dewey made the point that when Franklin Roosevelt was asked to run for governor in 1928, "he owed a large sum of money to the Warm Springs Foundation,"* and that John J. Raskob promised to take care of it. "I just wish we had a Raskob in the Republican Party," said Dewey. Candidate Hanley betook himself down to Wall Street...
...last-moment hitch developed in the well-laid wedding plans of Cinemactor Errol Flynn, 41, and Hollywood Dancer Patrice Wymore, 23, when a French Lutheran clergyman suddenly withdrew the use of his church. The twice-divorced groom scurried about, thought he had found another, an abandoned church in Beaulieu-sur-Mer. Other reported plans: a civil ceremony in Monaco with an army guard of honor, peasants dancing in the streets, followed by a one-day honeymoon, the shortest of Flynn's career...
...Fellows are Ernest L. DeVore of Monongahela, Pa., William E. England of Atlanta, Ga., James M. Flynn of Toledo, O., William A. Kittel of Woronoco, Carl W. Lindner of Silver Spring, Md., Roger J. Maher of Pittsburgh, Nathan Norman of Allston, Joseph P. O'Donnell of Somerville, and Gordon A. Padgett of Savannab...
...good at spying . . . We want to revive the John Stuart Mill concept of liberalism. We feel we're rescuing an old word from misuse." Among those who did their bit to help rescue the old liberalism in the first issue were George Sokolsky, Raymond Moley and John T. Flynn...