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Governor Tom Dewey kept his famous pre-election promise. When failing old (74) Republican Joe Hanley stepped aside last September so that Dewey could run for a third term, Dewey made "an ironclad, unbreakable arrangement" with Hanley to give him a state job in case he failed to win a seat in the U.S. Senate. The "Hanley Letter," in which Joe discussed the deal and his own big debts, was the sensation of the campaign. Last week, Defeated Candidate Joe Hanley, who has lost one eye and is having trouble with the other, got his consolation prize...
...Hanley's famed, indiscreet letter came home to roost last week. Republican Congressman W. Kingsland ("Dear King") Macy, to whom it was written, had spread copies of it around, in hopes that it would embarrass Tom Dewey (TIME, Oct. 23). It didn't; it was King Macy who got hurt. When the final count was in, Macy had been beaten, by 126 votes, by Democrat-Liberal Ernest Greenwood, a retired schoolteacher. Macy, running for his third term in the House, angrily demanded a recount. It was the first time in 36 years that the district had failed...
Lehman Beats Hanley...
...York, Joseph R. Hanley conceded the election to incumbent Democratic Senator Herbert H. Lehman...
...some cases, of course, there would appear to be more involved than this party against party issue. It is relatively easy for the honest voter to make his choice when he can pick Lehman over Hanley. It is harder when he must choose between Taft and Ferguson. Yet, in the last analysis, it is party votes which count in Washington, after the speeches are over and done with...