Word: buster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reputation. Even Dewey campaign headquarters admitted that many a watcher beside the Western tracks came not to hear ringing words but to look at Dewey the Racket-Buster. When Tom Dewey at 23, a young man with a new mustache, a background of boyhood in Owosso, Mich., glee clubs at the University of Michigan, law school at Columbia, entered a Manhattan law office in 1925, nobody needed to talk of future U. S. growth. But rackets were a prime subject for discussion in any gathering. No social historian has traced the spread of the word racket through U. S. common...
Fortnight ago the Milwaukee's Olympian carried Presidential Candidate Thomas Edmund Dewey up the mountain. Behind him lay 1) a record as a racket-buster so phenomenal that people were tired of hearing about it; 2) a record as a politician based on the narrow margin (about 64,000 votes) by which he was defeated for the Governorship of New York in 1938; 3) a favorite's position as voters' preconvention choice-56%, according to the Gallup poll-in the race for the Republican nomination. And before him, besides the Western ranges, lay a series of talks...
Most Dewey listeners last week knew the broad outlines of the story of Dewey the Racket-Buster: his appointment, at 28, as Chief Assistant United States Attorney, the conviction of Beer Baron Waxey Gordon, the runaway grand jury that balked at the frail measures of a lethargic Tammany prosecutor, Governor Lehman's appointment of Tom Dewey (married, father of one, earning $50,000 a year) as Special Prosecutor - and then the bang-up conclusion with Racketeers Luciano, Pennochio, Coulcher, et al. going to jail for 15, 20, 30 to 50 years, and the linking of rackets to Tammany Hall...
Minneapolis-Moline in meeting this growing competition has produced a "Comfortractor." Its driver sits on upholstery in a cab heated, fitted with radio, dustproof, cooled by an electric fan-the answer to a clod-buster's prayer for release from boredom, sweat and cornfield dirt...