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Scripps-Howard's Ray Lamb reported that Local 16,975 of United Sea Food Workers Union (a Federal union) had rehired as its business agent blubber-mouthed, notorious Joseph ("Socks") Lanza. Known as Sea Food Papa, the Tsar of the Fulton Fish Market, and other names, Socks Lanza is no rose under any of them...
Released last February, Socks Lanza lost no time getting himself elected to his $75-a-week job with the union he has lived on since he founded it 21 years...
Last week Mr. Green, professing to have learned, from Reporter Lamb's story, of Sock's reemergence, dispatched a telegram to A. F. of L. executives in Manhattan instructing them to revoke the charter of Local 16,975 unless Socks Lanza was dropped forthwith from its payroll...
Promptly Local 16,975 refused, promptly lost its charter. Then Sea Food Papa made a unique gesture of renunciation, resigned (thus automatically restoring the union's charter). To his friends Socks Lanza said: "I'm being crucified...
...thousands of radio listeners came the dramatic voice of New York's youthful District Attorney-Nominee Thomas Edmund Dewey. In the subsequent account of the underworld connections of Tammany's Marinelli, Mr. Dewey charged him not only with hobnobbing with jailbirds with such names as "Socks" Lanza and "Scutch"' Indelicate, but with harboring, as his chauffeur, a notorious fugitive from justice named Charles Falci. It was as detailed and exciting a story as any other installment in the gangbusting radio series that had made Lawyer Dewey the saltiest campaigner in recent New York history. But hard-shelled...