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...second scrimmage to be played at the Boston Lacrosse Club on Saturday, April 14, and for its opener with M.I.T. on the 21st. As it shapes up now, the line is as follows: Rogers, goal; Pierce, Foster, and Wood, inner defense; Borg, Smith and Arias, midfield; Keegen, Hanley and Gradey, inside attack...
North Carolina has 25 votes at the G.O.P. convention. Whereas Wendell Willkie had worked hard for only six votes in New Hampshire, Tom Dewey now apparently had plucked off 25 votes without seeming effort. With a neat bit of stagecraft timing, Joe Hanley, Dewey's faithful Lieutenant Governor, turned up in North Carolina to keynote the state's Republican convention. Forthwith, delegates with whoop & holler voted unanimously to "draft" New York's cagey Governor...
...whole trend: it demonstrated that Negroes are deserting the New Deal in droves, that public resentment against the "ins" is stronger in the privacy of the voting booth than in polls, editorials or street-corner talk. In New York, no one in his right mind had conceded colorless Joe Hanley more than a 100,000 majority for Lieutenant Governor; Republican Joe Hanley trotted home with a 350,000 margin...
...long ago as 1938 Tom Dewey pledged a clean-up of Albany's O'Connell machine. Last week, deftly timed before Election Day, Governor Dewey was making good. As part of his campaign to elect Republican Joe R. Hanley as Lieutenant Governor over Democrat Lieut. General William N. Haskell, Tom Dewey was investigating : 1) a $1,600,000 bookkeeping shortage in Albany's capital funds, 2) "wholesale and shocking violations of the election law," 3) Albany tax assessments, which for years have been rigged to favor O'Connell friends and punish O'Connell enemies...
...week's end the battle was going Tom Dewey's way. Joe Hanley looked like a sure thing in next week's election. Dewey had his three investigations going full blast, had blocked the O'Connell grand jury, at least temporarily, with a court order. Albany had not seen such bitter fighting in years. Said one politico: "There ought to be a truce to exchange prisoners...