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TIME'S report on "Trucks on the Roads" noted that the whole issue has been complicated by "a smoke screen of publicity from the railroads" as well as the trucking lobby, which New York's Governor Dewey has defined as "a powerful, highly organized lobby, devoted exclusively to the purpose of preserving the extreme preference now enjoyed by the biggest trucks." In the interests of complete fairness and accuracy, TIME comments herewith on the five specific points singled out by American Trucking Associations, Inc. in a paid advertisement on the opposite page...
Justice Is Done. In Dallas, a few days after obtaining the release of Dewey Leon Hipp, jailed for drunkenness, Attorney Abe Byers asked police to rearrest his client, angrily explained: "He gave me a hot check...
...year-old model caught the smiling Irish eye of the 58-year-old mayor of New York, they had both been married before. Mayor William O'Dwyer was two years a widower. In 1938, Texas-born, convent-bred Sloan Simpson had married an insurance executive named Carroll Dewey Hipp, a Protestant, in a civil ceremony, was divorced from him five years later. The Archdiocese of New York granted her a "declaration of free state," permitting her to marry again. Catholics are not recognized by the church as married unless they have had a Catholic wedding (though for non-Catholics...
...Dewey: I spent 14 days there...
...Dewey: Tokyo is a beautiful city...