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...Krivitsky. While the anti-Communist crusade is the most important New Leader job, it is not the only one. It also aims to present "a variety of opinions consistent with our democratic policy." As a result, its pages have glittered with articles by such big names as Philosophers John Dewey and Bertrand Russell, Novelists George Orwell and Arthur Koestler, Poet Carl Sandburg, Politicos Herbert Morrison and Leon Blum, Labor Leaders Walter Reuther and James Carey, and a host of others...
...them-fell too readily these days into mere nagging. Without Vandenberg, the party's ideas on foreign policy had often fallen to a low level, sometimes even to the low level of McCarthyism: irresponsible, theatrical, partisan. (At Princeton University last week, New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey warned: "Before any Republican rejoices at the possible shipwreck of the foreign policy of the Democratic Administration, he should remember that we are all in the same boat...
This reticence has not prevented the law from checking up on some of his business enterprises. Take Jack's last job: one of his associates told the cops all about it to avoid being electrocuted at Sing Sing. It took place in 1939, after Gangbuster Tom Dewey slapped a subpoena on a onetime garment-union leader named Philip Orlofsky. Orlofsky knew a lot about the union rackets, and Mob Chieftain Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter was disturbed. He ordered Orlofsky's death. Parisi was chosen to do the honors...
...esteem, Brooklyn Assemblyman Lawrence P. Murphy, a Democrat, introduced a bill in the New York State legislature last winter to prohibit such splitting of doubleheaders. Amid outraged cries from the Dodger front office ("An improper exercise of police power"), the bill passed both houses. Then it went to Governor Dewey for signature...
Last week, after pondering the matter for 20 days, Tom Dewey agreed with the Dodger management. Wrote Dewey in his veto message: "This is still a free country." The Dodgers could go right on charging for morning and afternoon games, as long as Dodger fans kept showing up and buying tickets...