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...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...
...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...
...veteran of two wars (Spanish American and World War I), Hanley had been in New York State politics since 1926. Recently he had become worried about going blind (his right eye was removed in 1948), and concerned about his livelihood. This summer, he had borrowed a reported $30,000 from two prominent Republican friends, to make the race for governor. One was Publisher Frank Gannett. The other was former State G.O.P. Chairman W. Kingsland Macy, to whom he had written his letter...
...nefarious crime," cried Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Walter Lynch, speaking as if he were full of pity for what had happened to "a broken-hearted old man." Tom Dewey, when reporters reached him, said that he was delighted that Joe Hanley had "met the facts head...
...York: Senator Herbert Lehman, 72, to defeat Lieut. Governor Joe Hanley, 74 (see above...