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...Candidate Harold Riegelman instead of damaging the Liberal Party's hornrimmed hoot owl, ex-Kefauver Committee Counsel Rudolph Halley. And the Wagnerites had cause to be embarrassed on another count: after crying that a mysterious, top-level Republican Mr. X had attempted to get Big-Time Racketeer Joey Fay out of prison (a charge calculated to embarrass not only local but state and national Republican administrations as well), they had, at week's end, dismally failed to name...
...That Boy." In an "emergency" broadcast, Wagner charged that "one of the most important men in the U.S." had attempted to spring Joey Fay, a notorious labor extortioner, from Sing Sing Prison. Said Wagner: "I call on the governor to deny that one of the men who tried to get Fay out of jail...
Dewey's closest political associates on the national scene . . ." With a typical retort, Governor Thomas E. Dewey promptly accepted the challenge. Said he: "Apparently Wagner is trying to charge that some member of the national Administration appealed to me unsuccessfully in the interest of Joseph Fay. I always thought the boy was stupid, but never before that he was crazy. No such appeal has ever been made to me by anyone connected with the national Administration...
That tossed the ball back to Wagner, who said: "Who is Governor Dewey trying to kid? I never said the appeal was made to him. I said it was made to the State Parole Board, which had refused to parole Fay last January." Alfred R. Loos, chairman of the parole board, challenged Wagner to make public the name of his "most important" man. Although the board's records are confidential, said Loos, he and other members would get to the facts after they got the name and would make a public statement...
...Dewey started off forcefully, was running hard at the first turn. He 1) appointed a commission to investigate the race-track operations, and 2) moved for (and probably will get) the removal of Republican Leader Arthur Wicks of the state senate, who was a five-time caller at Joey Fay's Sing Sing cell. After his investigating commission reports. Dewey is expected to propose new laws to cut down the opportunities for shakedowns at the race tracks and also for labor racketeering anywhere in New York...