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Thomas E. Dewey decided that New York's Acting Lieutenant Governor Arthur Wicks was unfit, because of his visits to imprisoned Labor Racketeer Joseph Fay (TIME, Oct. 12). Promptly, Dewey called a special session of the legislature to boot out Wicks as majority leader and temporary president of the state senate. The Dewey forces thought that they had ihe support of nearly all the 37 Republican senators. But Dewey's quick-kick attempt was blocked...
Boss of Long Island's rock-ribbed Republican Nassau County (pop. 672,765), is J. Russel Sprague, old friend and crafty political lieutenant of New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey. Last week Sprague, under fire for his ownership of $500.000 worth of stock (which cost him, in effect, $24,000) in the scandal-ridden Yonkers Raceway, resigned as New York's Republican national committeeman...
Sprague managed Dewey's unsuccessful bid for the presidential nomination in 1940. During the 18 years he has bossed Nassau County. Sprague has deftly built up big Republican pluralities in his mushrooming suburban duchy...
...Jersey Democratic leaders generally agreed on why they won the governorship: "Public disgust" over the scandals that had touched the New Jersey G.O.P. The last straw, they thought, was Republican Candidate Troast's admission that he had asked New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey to commute the sentence of Labor Extortionist Joey Fay. Winner Meyner (rhymes with signer) disagreed heartily with the interpretation that got him headlines across the nation. He thought he had won on local issues, didn't think his victory was any reflection on the Eisenhower Administration...
...station in Vancouver, Wash, as well as the San Leandro, Calif, daily News-Observer (5,473). In periods of expansiveness. Sackett has been known to roam the coast picking up options to buy papers as lightly as he tosses off philosophic oratory from William James, Santayana or John Dewey. Six years ago in Seattle, he announced he had bought the ailing Star, hastily pulled out, leaving an option behind when he could not meet the purchase price. Where Sackett hopes to raise the money to buy the Los Angeles News is his secret. But News Publisher Smith, who will...