Word: joey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...Attorney 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...
...Joey's name bobbed up in the harness-racing scandal (TIME, Oct. 5). William De Koning, boss of the union whose members kicked back money in order to keep their jobs, was reported to be a faithful visitor at Joey Fay's Sing Sing address. Reporters demanded a list of Joey's other callers, got a shocking surprise. No fewer than 87 persons, many of them celebrated, had gone to see Joey...
...Joey's pals, the guest list revealed, were by no means confined to one party or profession. Other visitors included Democratic Mayor John Kenny of Jersey City, Louis Marciante, president of the New Jersey State Federation of Labor, Thomas Murray, president of the New York State Federation of Labor, George Levy, manager of Roosevelt Raceway, and former Democratic Mayor Meyer Ellenstein of Newark. Paul Troast, New Jersey construction tycoon and the G.O.P. candidate for governor, proved his friendship in another way: he had written to Governor Dewey in 1951, he admitted, to plead for a commutation for Joey...
Noble Causes. The bleats of innocence could be heard from Trenton to Albany. Nearly everyone, it seemed, had visited Joey on behalf of someone else or in the interest of some noble cause. The explanations tended to confirm reports that Fay was still firmly in command of the construction unions, that he was handing out jobs to "graduating" comrades at Sing Sing and to relatives of cooperative prison officials, and that he was masterminding the raceway shakedowns...