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Last week President Kennedy acted to support the Martin majority. To fill an opening on the Fed Board, he picked J. (for James) Dewey Daane, 45, formerly Deputy Under Secretary of the Treasury. Daane (pronounced Dane) leans to the conservative side, was pushed for the job by Martin and Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon. An economist with 21 years of seasoning in the Federal Reserve System, Daane succeeds G. H. King Jr., who usually voted with Martin...
Eisenhower reports that he had no knowledge of the phone call Thomas E. Dewey made to Vice-Presidential Candidate Richard Nixon before Nixon's famed "Checkers" broadcast defending the "secret fund" raised for him by California businessmen. Dewey urged that Nixon resign, and Ike admits that "the young Senator" feared that Dewey was speaking...
Genovese operated mostly around New York City, specializing in gambling and narcotics. As far back as 1947, New York's Governor Thomas Dewey called him "the new king of the rackets." And king or not, he made crime pay. His wealth, said Valachi, "would break the adding machine." His estranged wife said that Genovese was worth over $30 million, mostly stashed away in safe-deposit boxes...
Born. To Thomas Edmund Dewey Jr., 31, Manhattan investment banker, son of the Republican standard-bearer in 1944 and 1948, and Ann Lawler Dewey, 26, Columbia University doctoral candidate in classics: their first child, a son, first grandchild for Dewey Sr.; in Manhattan. Name: Thomas Edmund Lawler Dewey...
...imperturbable New Englander and onetime assistant Manhattan district attorney under Thomas Dewey, Tillinghast took over TWA in 1961 after Industrialist Howard Hughes was forced by the airline's lenders to put his 78.2% ownership of TWA in trust. When Hughes began sniping at the new administration, Tillinghast tied him into legal knots with an antitrust suit. He arranged additional financing for more jets, flew the line constantly to check on service, and shifted TWA's image from that of a tourist's to a businessman's airline...