Word: hanley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Democratic Deals. Though the Hanley letter had been a windfall, the Democrats' moral outrage over political deals was something new considering their own maneuverings. Boss Ed Flynn, anxious to get a big New York City vote, had arranged a nice ambassadorship for Mayor William O'Dwyer, timed just right to require a Nov. 7 New York City election for his successor. And then when Acting Mayor Vincent Impellitteri, a docile Tammanyite, had refused to get out of the way for Boss Flynn's candidate (Justice Ferdinand Pecora), Impellitteri had been offered a 14-year judgeship...
...week long, Dewey tried to soften the crushing effect of the Hanley letter (TIME, Oct. 23). There was a lot to explain away: 74-year-old, debt-ridden, half-blind Lieut. Governor Joe Hanley, "humiliated, disappointed and heartsick" because he was not going to run for governor and Tom Dewey was, had written that Dewey had made him "certain unalterable and unquestionably definite propositions" to free Hanley of debt, if he would take the Republican nomination for U.S. Senator instead...
Wall Street Sunday. Dewey, angrily defensive, said that nobody had offered to pay Hanley's debts (more than $30,000), and furthermore that there was nothing wrong if someone had. Referring to books by Democratic Bosses Flynn and Farley, Dewey made the point that when Franklin Roosevelt was asked to run for governor in 1928, "he owed a large sum of money to the Warm Springs Foundation,"* and that John J. Raskob promised to take care of it. "I just wish we had a Raskob in the Republican Party," said Dewey. Candidate Hanley betook himself down to Wall Street...
...Republicans have found soft spots in Democratic strength in Illinois, California, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and elsewhere. But at the same time, the late war news has made the Republicans more vulnerable in such danger areas as Ohio, Colorado, and Missouri, Equally distressing to the GOP is the fear that the "Hanley letter" episode in New York State has suddenly given to the unknown Rep. Walter Lynch a chance to defeat Governor Thomas E. Dewey...
...York: Senator Herbert Lehman, 72, to defeat Lieut. Governor Joe Hanley, 74 (see above...