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...Republican candidate, Judge Jonah J. Goldstein, had been a Democrat until the day before his nomination. Now, with the added blessings of the Liberal and Fusion Parties, grey-haired Judge Goldstein was belaboring Democrats right & left. Nightly he cried that "Tammany's tin-box boys" were fixing to loot the city. Mild-mannered Judge Goldstein had once been secretary to arch-Democrat Al Smith. He now had the backing of another Governor: Tom Dewey...
...last week by a new one. Its name: the "No Deal" party. Its emblem: a lighted electric bulb. It also had a candidate for mayor: Yaleman Newbold Morris, Republican City Council President and protégé of Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, who is retiring. (Morris' opponents : Judge Jonah J. Goldstein, Republican - Liberal -City Fusion candidate ; former Brooklyn District Attorney William O'Dwyer, choice of the Democrats and the American Labor Party.) The new party's name, thought up by LaGuardia, was intended to signify that no deals had been made with politicians...
Republican bosses, out of power so long that they could not find a dyed-in-the-wool GOPster, were confronted with a choice between two Democrats. They picked one Judge Jonah J. Goldstein, onetime secretary to Al Smith. In so doing, they lost the services of the top Republican in city politics, Council President Newbold Morris, a patrician socialite who believes in government as a career. Cracked Newbold Morris: "[Judge Goldstein] thinks he can buy the good government label like a new collar. You've got to earn it through the years. It comes after trial by fire...
...Jonah Unity...
...Moscow radio -a bit of "Soviet caterwauling" (to use your phrase) the justification for which is "hard to guess" (TIME, March 26). The "caterwauling" tries to identify me as an "imperialist." In support of this ridiculous theme, it charges me with wanting the kind of world unity "which Jonah enjoyed when he was swallowed by the whale." Yes; I used that phrase in my Senate speech of last Jan. 10. How did I use it? I said: "We accept no conception that our contribution to unity must be silence, while others say and do what they please . . . and that unity...