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...leading Republican Presidential possibility. Scene was the Manhattan courtroom of General Sessions Judge Charles C. Nott Jr. There 62-year-old Tammany Leader Jimmy Hines, a New Deal patronage dispenser in Manhattan, was on trial for serving as prop and protection dispenser for Harlem's $20,000,000-a-year numbers racket (TIME, Aug. 29)* There, too, 37-year-old Republican District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey was on trial for his political life...
...fear of what Mr. Dies might do to him hung over redoubtable Captain Ortman. From Chicago, he enjoys his $2,700-a-year job and smart blue uniform as patronage from Illinois' old Senator J. Ham Lewis. Besides, he explained, his chief quarrel was not with Representative Dies & committee but with veterans and their organizations. Said Veteran Ortman: "They're beginning to think the country is permeated with "isms" when . . . the American public is 99 44/100% pure...
...Samuel Insull Jr., who lost most of his utility officerships in his father's colossal crash, resigned the last one-a $51,000-a-year job as assistant to Chairman James Simpson of Commonwealth Edison Co.- in order to make more money at insurance brokerage and settle his remaining $300,000 in debts...
Frank Desiderio, 64, is the boss, but his seven sons - Thomas, 39, Anthony, 37, Dominic, 35, Arnold, 33, John, 31, Salvatore, 27, and Michael, 22 - manage the $2,500,000-a-year business. Diminutive, flashy-eyed Tony, who started pushing the pushcart at 9, is President. All the Desiderios are hard workers, have no high-priced executives or stockholders to worry about. All three of their plants were in the red when they bought them; all three have thrived since...
...When Tugwell left his $10,000-a-year job as Under Secretary of Agriculture in 1937, his good friend, Charles Taussig, head of American Molasses Co., offered him a job as executive vice president. He accepted, admitted he knew little about the business. When his good friend Mayor LaGuardia next year offered him the planning job, which suited his tastes and paid $15,000, he accepted with alacrity...