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...Reserve figures but combinations of pari-mutuel race-track odds, which the racket had ways of rigging. To preserve his monopoly, Schultz bought political protection. He bought it, said Mr. Dewey, from Jimmy Hines. To deliver it, Jimmy Hines elected Mr. Dewey's predecessor as district attorney, William Copeland Dodge. Mr. Hines, said Mr. Dewey, described Mr. Dodge as "stupid, respectable...
Dewey's predecessor, Tammany's ex-District Attorney William Copeland Dodge...
...Notable among bills last week signed by the President: Flood Control ($375,000,000 authorized), vesting power in the U. S. to take title to all projects it wholly finances; Food & Drugs (requiring more detailed labels, forbidding harmful cosmetics, last work of New York's late Senator Copeland); La Follette Anti-Strike breaking (amendments prohibiting interstate transport of strikebreakers); Permanent Postmasters (ensuring 14,500 life jobs); Wages-&-Hours (its Pennsylvania prototype was last week declared unconstitutional-see p. 12); Mt. Olympus National Park...
Since the terms of Senator Robert Wagner and Governor Lehman are both expiring, the death of Senator Royal S. Copeland fortnight ago left the most populous State's three biggest political jobs to be filled at once. Because Governor Lehman was drafted against his will to strengthen the New Deal ticket in 1936 and then did not prove as big a vote-getter as the President, the assumption was that he would step aside in favor of another gubernatorial candidate, possibly popular Bob Wagner. While Franklin Roosevelt's lieutenants pondered what would be the best political line...
This declaration gave the big State's big Democrats plenty to talk about as they rode to Senator Copeland's funeral, held at his rambling white home in peaceful Suffern. After the funeral Herbert Lehman returned to his summer place at nearby Purchase, picked up the telephone, dictated a 25-word statement to his secretary in Albany: "If my party desires me to be a candidate for the office of U. S. Senator to succeed Senator Copeland, I will accept the nomination." Some leaders rejoiced, others fumed. Franklin Roosevelt and Postmaster General Farley got together for a hasty...