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Flint-chinned Joseph Fay was a man of appalling power. As vice president of the A.F.L. International Union of Operating Engineers, bellicose Joey Fay bossed the building trades of the New York-New Jersey area for years, and labor leaders, industrialists and politicians paid him homage. (Once Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City welcomed him home from a European trip with a chartered boat and the Jersey City police band aboard.) But Joey got into trouble: in 1945 he and his pal Jim Bove, vice president of the Hod Carriers Union, got 7½-to-15-year prison stretches...
...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...
...along with her regular treatment, Joey began her investment. It had been a long time since her student days in a Manila convent. The return to books was not easy. She plunged into a schedule of classes that lasted from 8:30 in the morning until midafternoon, five days a week, with every seventh week off for a rest...
After four years of such investing, Joey collected her due interest: an accredited high-school diploma. She also landed a job as one of the paid, part-time staff members of the Star, the community news magazine. Now, Joey hopes to study shorthand, bookkeeping and journalism. She also hopes to achieve her greatest ambition: permanent residence in the U.S. and U.S. citizenship...
...recent weeks that hope has been shadowed by the possibility of deportation, since her temporary visa has expired. Last year two special bills to grant her citizenship died in committee when the 82nd Congress adjourned. And a fortnight ago, an Immigration Service official ordered Joey to leave the country, but gave her the privilege of voluntary departure. Last week. however, Joey's future was brightened again. Immigration officials in Washington promised that no action toward her deportation would be taken for several months. That will give Congress time to consider another private bill granting her permanent U.S. residence...