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...Labor, Thomas Murray, president of the New York State Federation of Labor, George Levy, manager of Roosevelt Raceway, and former Democratic Mayor Meyer Ellenstein of Newark. Paul Troast, New Jersey construction tycoon and the G.O.P. candidate for governor, proved his friendship in another way: he had written to Governor Dewey in 1951, he admitted, to plead for a commutation for Joey...
Though he made haste, he had an intuitive awareness of his people's gait. The old Turkish alphabet had become an esoteric nightmare of cumbersome Arabic scrawls; its difficulty contributed to illiteracy at home and incomprehensibility abroad. Kemal talked first to U.S. Educator John Dewey, then sat down with linguistic experts and worked out a new, simple Latin, A-B-C alphabet of 29 letters. Where new concepts lacked ancient symbols, he simply used Western forms: automobile to otomobil; coffee to kahve; statistic to istatistik...
...public clamored for the answers to two questions: i) Why had the New York State Harness Racing Commission done nothing about the violation of the regulations? and 2) Who were the owners who submitted to Lewis' dictatorship? As the storm swirled up the Hudson to Albany, Governor Dewey acted promptly. First, he suspended the license of the Yonkers track (which was scheduled to open a 42-night fall meeting this week) until all 1,200 employees had submitted fingerprints and required statements...
...scene of the Dempsey-Carpentier "Battle of the Century") and promoted the Hambletonian at his Goshen, N.Y. track as the nation's top annual harness race. Other stockholders included J. Russel Sprague, G.O.P. national committeeman, boss of Long Island's Nassau County and close friend of Governor Dewey; Dr. Richard Hoffman, best known as Frank Costello's psychiatrist; and Mrs. Jeanne Weiss, daughter of the late Democratic bigwig, Irwin Steingut...
This week, as Dewey's investigators got to work on the Yonkers mess, the New York World-Telegram and Sun trotted out another scandal, this one at Roosevelt Raceway on Long Island. Labor bosses, the paper said, have been milking the paychecks of track employees for $345,000 a year; every Friday night, Roosevelt employees who wanted to keep their jobs hastened to a bar in nearby Hempstead and forked out cash tribute to the racketeers.' Some of the payments went for tickets to clambakes, but the rest of the money was simply handed over with no questions...