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John F. Curry, 64, was big boss of Tammany Hall from 1929 to 1934. White haired and benign, the old Tammanyite walked to the stand without a glance at powerful old Tammanyite Hines. who helped to make him boss and later led the movement to oust him. Prosecutor Dewey had been trying to show that one of Hines's great services to the numbers racketeers was his ability to get troublesome detectives transferred to other duties. He asked Mr. Curry...
Roosevelt's choice of "Davey John" Lewis to oust "Militant Millard" Tydings was testimony to the calibre of both...
...Their names brought to four the list of eminent Democrats along the eastern seaboard publicly consigned to purgatory by the President's Purge. The others: Senators Smith of South Carolina and George of Georgia. To slap the latter further down, the White House last week caused RFC to oust, "for political activities," Senator George's stanch supporter. Edgar B. Dunlap, counsel to RFC's Atlanta office...
...burglarized his apartment and stolen documents which later showed up in Detroit and in the Communist Daily Worker. Oblivious to their neglected Ford organization drive, to the disruption sure to accompany further war, the feudists this week proceeded toward a special convention and an attempt by the ousted rebels to oust Homer Martin. Meanwhile, John L. Lewis grimly followed their farrago, continued to consider whether he could & should step in, put some one else in Homer Martin's chair...
...smoothly, but their chief complaint is Martin's disregard of democratic procedure, typified for them by his failure to submit the G. M. supplementary agreement to the membership for ratification. Last week, though Unity leaders disclaimed any part in it, evidence was accumulating of a drive to oust Martin before the U. A. W.'s convention a year from next summer...