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Thomas E. Dewey, former governor of New York and twice-defeated Republican presidential candidate, will be in Cambridge today to address the Student Bar Association on the "Lawyer and Politics...
...party loyalist and a skilled compromiser of divergent opinions, Hall ventured into national politics. In Thomas E. Dewey's 1944 presidential race he managed the Republicans' national Speakers Bureau, booking Republican speeches all over the U.S. During the 80th Congress he chaired and drastically reorganized the Congressional Campaign Committee. Three years later he ran into the biggest political fight of his career by refusing to vote for repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act. William De Koning, Nassau County's racketeering labor boss, called on Hall in a rage. Hall still quivers with indignation when he recalls...
Then Hall learned that Russel Sprague, Nassau's Republican leader, a member of the national committee and a close friend of Dewey's, was friendly with De Koning. Hall decided to buck both the political boss and the labor boss. "I attacked De Koning as a Little Caesar and directed my campaign against him. The people supported...
...Goodness Sake." Reporters pressed in hard to find if they could catch any new thinking about a possible heir apparent in case Ike does not run. Had he thought of what New York's ex-Governor Tom Dewey might do in the campaign? Said Ike: "I have not-this is the first time I have thought of it." His brother Milton? "If he has any political ambition, it is unknown to me." Had he meant to oppose Chief Justice Earl Warren as a possible candidate in a press conference two weeks before (TIME, Feb. 6). "Oppose? For goodness sake...
...handily into a baseball box score. Young Connie was a catcher-one of the young game's best. He was in Pittsburgh as manager of the Pirates when Coxey's Army marched on Washington in 1894; he was manager of Milwaukee in the Western League when Dewey took Manila in 1898. And when MacArthur landed at Inchon in 1950, Mr. Mack was still at the ballpark. He was 87, and he had been manager of the Philadelphia Athletics for half a century...