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McCurdy said he was also concerned about Dewey Hickman who was bothered by a leg injury and Tom Spengler who suffered a knee injury. Stowell said that these injuries, coupled with the absence of a number of other Crimson runners, accounted for the disappointing performance...
Effective Manager. As was true of another noted Republican before him, Herbert Hoover, history would have treated Dewey more kindly if he had never run for President. The son of an Owosso, Mich., newspaper publisher, Dewey was educated at the University of Michigan and Columbia University. After winning third place in a national contest as a college baritone, he studied voice in New York City, considered an operatic career (Critic Deems Taylor liked Dewey's voice but said he sang without "enough impulse"). Instead Dewey settled on law and swiftly achieved prominence. A skilled trial lawyer who could wither...
...Dewey went back into private practice, which by 1935 was netting him more than $50,000 a year. He left that cozy career to accept an appointment from Democratic Governor Herbert H. Lehman as a special prosecutor to attack racketeers. He badgered rackets victims into testifying against their tormentors by threatening them with income tax and contempt of court charges, and was able to boast that he "never lost a witness" to underworld retribution. He rarely lost a case, either: at one point he ran up 72 convictions in 73 trials...
...young prosecutor earned national fame and soon challenged the man who had launched him, coming within 65,000 votes of unseating Governor Lehman. When Lehman did not seek reelection, Dewey was easily elected Governor in 1942. In his three terms, he proved a superb administrator and an effective manager of the state's money, building up a $600 million surplus, which he funneled into long-neglected hospitals and highways. He also established the first state commission to combat racial discrimination in employment...
Died. Thomas E. Dewey, 68, three-term Governor of New York and twice a Republican presidential nominee (see THE NATION...