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...Dewey's closest political associates on the national scene . . ." With a typical retort, Governor Thomas E. Dewey promptly accepted the challenge. Said he: "Apparently Wagner is trying to charge that some member of the national Administration appealed to me unsuccessfully in the interest of Joseph Fay. I always thought the boy was stupid, but never before that he was crazy. No such appeal has ever been made to me by anyone connected with the national Administration...
That tossed the ball back to Wagner, who said: "Who is Governor Dewey trying to kid? I never said the appeal was made to him. I said it was made to the State Parole Board, which had refused to parole Fay last January." Alfred R. Loos, chairman of the parole board, challenged Wagner to make public the name of his "most important" man. Although the board's records are confidential, said Loos, he and other members would get to the facts after they got the name and would make a public statement...
...Crime Committee, which handed it out to other papers to use in digging up their own stories. The New York Journal-American discovered that Acting Lieutenant Governor Arthur Wicks, along with other prominent officials, had also visited Labor Racketeer Fay in Sing Sing (TIME, Oct. 12). As a result, Dewey asked Wicks to resign. Wicks offered to "let the Senate pass upon my fitness." In its zeal, the J-A was also slightly embarrassed. Among the stockholders of the Yonkers track was the paper's own sports columnist, Lewis Burton, who doubled as the track's publicity...
...Last week Newsday's three-year-long campaign finally paid off with a blaze of Page One stories in the Manhattan dailies on one of the biggest state scandals in years. As a result, ten Roosevelt track and union officials were indicted for "extortion," and Governor Thomas E. Dewey named a special state committee to investigate corruption in harness racing...
...York's first daytime high schools had been completed for only three years when he finished grammar school in 1900. He went to Morris High School. He went on to Columbia University's Teachers College, the academic nest in which John Dewey hatched his theories of progressive education (theories which the New York school system began adopting after World War I and from which Middle-of-the-Roader Jansen still cautiously borrows today). He went back to the public schools as a teacher, married a fellow teacher - a vivacious physical education instructor named Frances Allan...