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Frances Perkins, first woman Cabinet member in U.S. history, last week made what might be her last speech as Secretary of Labor. Her theme was old; but, coming from her, it was new. Echoing one of Tom Dewey's prime campaign arguments, she suggested that the Government's dozen-odd labor agencies (NWLB, NLRB, NRLP, FEPC, etc.) be put back under the Labor Department...
...Technically, the President would not be duly elected until next Jan. 6 at 1 p.m., when the House & Senate will meet in joint session for a formal electoral vote count. But there was a strong probability that the final result, as announced on Jan. 6, would be: Roosevelt, 432; Dewey...
Last week there came testimony as to just what a lulu it was. One of two Albany grand juries, launched by Governor Tom Dewey to investigate legislative graft and Albany's corrupt O'Connell machine, reported that in 1943, under the lulu system, legislators and legislative employes had cost the state...
Before dawn of the 7th, the 225-mile end run from Leyte Gulf through Surigao Strait and up into the Camotes Sea, had been completed. Almost a hundred craft under Rear Admiral Arthur Dewey Struble, a Normandy veteran, lay off shore. At 6:30 the destroyers opened up on the beaches with 5-inch guns; after 20 minutes, LCIs carrying rocket launchers belched their loads onto a 1,200-yd. beachhead. At 7:07 (because General Bruce likes sevens for his 77th), the first troops sloshed up the beaches, without a casualty. Most of the Japs had been sucked into...
...Members of the famed One Thousand Club, roundly denounced by Tom Dewey during the campaign, got coveted invitations to the Term IV Inaugural...