Word: lehmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dewey's Tammany targets expected that his campaign speeches would be forgotten after his resounding victory at the polls last month, they were soon disillusioned. Day after election, an organization christened as the "Joint Committee on the County Clerk" wrote Democratic Governor Herbert H. Lehman suggesting that if Mr. Marinelli was all that Mr. Dewey explicitly said he was, he was not fit to hold office even until January i. Democrat Lehman, often accused of an opportunistic friendliness for Tammany, asked Mr. Marinelli to answer the charges within a week. Shunning reporters both at his slum offices...
Businesslike Mr. Dewey not only did so, but, as the special prosecutor whom Mr. Lehman had appointed to head the Legislature's New York racket inquiry, last fortnight he suddenly subpoenaed some 400 scared Marinelli heelers to appear before the grand jury. At this point a public hearing like that which trapped hapless Mayor Jimmy Walker began to seem to Tammany chieftains a worse prospect than giving Mr. Dewey a second scalp from their wigwam. Last week Boss Marinelli wrote Governor Lehman two letters. In one he resigned the office he would have held for only 28 days more...
...Major George Berry's nationwide Non-Partisan League who thought that Labor in the State was politically ripe for a full-fledged party of its own. In its first appearance on the ballot, it justified that expectation by polling 300,000 votes for Roosevelt and Democratic Governor Herbert Lehman. In its second appearance last week, it not only held the balance of power in New York's municipal election but helped elect Democrat Thomas F. Holling as mayor of Buffalo, cut a wider swath by supporting 13 successful candidates for the State Assembly (including sober young Robert...
...with the Tammany District Attorney's Office. Here such grave inefficiency was found, and such evident connection between the prosecution agency and the gangsters who four years ago held the City in their grip, that Governor Lehman set up a Special Prosecutor, Thomas E. Dewey, with all powers necessary to clean up the town. Mr. Dewey's record for rooting out the gangsters at the top, and for getting his suspect convicted, has been nothing short of phenomenal, far better, indeed, than the, more highly publicized Federal Bureau of G-Man Hoover...
...from 193-35 was over six thousand, an increase of 35 per cent. And the police protection of life and property, though never perfect in such a city, has been unusually fine, especially in view of the smashing of rackets by Mr. Dewey, the Special Prosecutor appointed by Governor Lehman to do the work which a Tammany District Attorney's office found itself incapable of performing...