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...city's gangsters and whores, had hundreds of police on his payroll and held court in his suite at the Waldorf Towers, beat the rap for gambling, narcotics, assault, grand larceny, bootlegging and driving without a license, until he was brought to book by young Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey in 1936 and sentenced to 30 to 50 years for compulsory prostitution. Said Lucky, years after he was paroled in 1946 by then Governor Dewey and deported to Italy: "They blamed everything but the second World...
...Counts? It is the very young and defenseless who seem to get the worst shake from the tot-book people. No sensitive pre-Dewey adult could read some of these first "reading aids" without revulsion, and to read a number of them produces an effect of mild narcolepsy. Many have been clearly influenced by the notorious "look-say" teaching method, and if a large percentage of children under eight can barely read, the reason could be that what they are permitted to read is witless and dull. Probably the safest rule for the adult buyer is to avoid any book...
...fill a potential political hot spot-controlling domestic gold and silver operations-the Treasury Department turned to a slight, studiously nonpartisan monetary whiz, James Dewey Daane (pronounced Dane), 43. Daane, a Phi Beta Kappa from Duke, learned his banking in 21 years with the Federal Reserve, joined the Treasury near the end of the Eisenhower years and smoothed the transition from Republican to Democratic monetary policies. As Deputy Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs, he will need all his neutrality as he copes simultaneously with demands from Western silver producers that the Treasury raise its pegged price...
...average increase of 500%. Six years ago, invoking a state law that bars a life company from selling casualty insurance, New York State officials blocked Wilde's efforts to broaden Conn Gen's business still more by buying a casualty company. Defiantly, Wilde hired Attorney Thomas E. Dewey, and in a five-year legal battle won the right to control a casualty company if it is operated separately. Last week, victory in hand, Wilde submitted to New York officials a new plan to buy the $314 million Aetna Insurance Co., a fire and casualty company unrelated...
...capture its first Big Ten championship in eight years. Passing had been the only questionable factor in the Spartan attack. Against Michigan, Quarterback Smith showed that he is a poised passer as well as a brilliant ball handler, and Michigan State had speed to spare in sophomore Halfbacks Dewey Lincoln and Sherman Lewis. The Spartans' traditionally tenacious "umbrella" defense has not given up a single touchdown in three games. But cautious Coach Duffy Daugherty is not yet counting on a trip to the Rose Bowl, picks Iowa and Ohio State as top contenders. He may be right; undefeated Iowa...