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Then, after U.S. District Attorney Tom Dewey put him away for seven years for income-tax evasion, Waxey had to start all over again in 1940. He dabbled in black-market sugar and was settled for a year in Atlanta. He got out, was caught in an office with $40,000 worth of "hot" watches, but released. Waxey dropped out of sight. Last November a New York detective got a mysterious telephone call: "If you want one of the biggest gangsters in the country, who is now in dope, look for your old friend W." The cops looked, found...
...arriving in Singapore last week on his Pacific tour, New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey had a complaint to make. In a speech before the bigwig Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, Dewey fished out a clipping from the English-language Singapore Straits-Times. Its front page carried a bannerline story and a four-column photo of the Cicero, Ill riots (TIME, July 23). Complained Dewey: "I am shocked to find that an incident of racial prejudice involving a few hundred people out of a nation of 150 million people is front-page news in Singapore...
...minute going-over usually reserved for Presidents. From his private car, the general caught glimpses of fluttering flags and handkerchiefs as he clipped through commuter stations along the way. Boston turned out in midafternoon to greet him as though he were just home from the wars; 20,000 packed Dewey Square to cheer his arrival and half a million lined the route of the triumphal motorcade...
...Singapore, on his tour of Asia, Governor Thomas E. Dewey expressed a view of the Korean war that was diametrically opposed to the MacArthur thesis of "utter uselessness." Said Dewey: "the vast armies of Red China have taken a terrific beating," and Communism has suffered its worst setback since...
...limestone museum on his Main Line estate at Merion, Pa. At the same time, he set up the Barnes Foundation to offer free art training to a limited number of carefully selected students a year. Since then, few besides foundation students and personal friends (including John Dewey, Katharine Cornell, Charles Laughton, Albert Einstein, Supreme Court Justice Owen Roberts) have seen any of his pictures...