Word: lewises
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last August, Labor Boss Thomas F. Lewis was murdered outside his Bronx apartment by a hired gunman who was killed, in turn, by a policeman. Lewis was president of Local 32-E of the A.F.L.'s Building Service Employes' Union, which had free rein at Yonkers Raceway.
Trouble Insurance. Lewis, it turned out, had run Yonkers Raceway as though he owned it. The management meekly agreed to hire hoodlums and ex-convicts brought in by Lewis and ignored the state law requiring sworn affidavits outlining their backgrounds. In the three years that Yonkers Raceway has been operating...
Press and public clamored for the answers to two questions: i) Why had the New York State Harness Racing Commission done nothing about the violation of the regulations? and 2) Who were the owners who submitted to Lewis' dictatorship? As the storm swirled up the Hudson to Albany, Governor...
Edited by British Poet Stephen Spender, 44, and Irving Kristol, 33, onetime managing editor of the U.S. monthly Commentary (TIME, Jan. 29, 1951), Encounter hopes to provide "an interchange of views among intellectuals of the whole English-speaking world." Anything that has any bearing "on culture or freedom," explains Editor...
Playing in the second varsity team backfield were Joe Conzelman at quarter, Dick Hoffman at tailback, Frank White at wingback, and Dexter Lewis and Bill Volmer at fullback.