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Reputation. Even Dewey campaign headquarters admitted that many a watcher beside the Western tracks came not to hear ringing words but to look at Dewey the Racket-Buster. When Tom Dewey at 23, a young man with a new mustache, a background of boyhood in Owosso, Mich., glee clubs at the University of Michigan, law school at Columbia, entered a Manhattan law office in 1925, nobody needed to talk of future U. S. growth. But rackets were a prime subject for discussion in any gathering. No social historian has traced the spread of the word racket through U. S. common...
Cynical City. After 17 years in New York City, Thomas Dewey still bears the mark of Owosso. Newspapermen who got along fine with Jimmy Walker find him a little on the heavy side. Nor is the District Attorney a sophisticated, well-adjusted metropolitan politico like Republican National Committeeman Kenneth Simpson, who has a Matisse on his wall, Alexander Kerensky for his guest. Thomas Dewey takes his career and campaigning hard, has never been able, like most New Yorkers, to slide easily through the city's life, or pay without questioning the physical and intellectual tribute it demands. He remembers...
...Boise, Salt Lake, Portland, Cheyenne, Owosso and most of the U. S., New York, if not exactly Sodom and Gomorrah, is still the city of sin and cynicism, full of rackets. And nobody ever gave them such a bill of particulars as Thomas Dewey...
...TIME, Sept. 4, reports, Thomas Edmund Dewey "rigorously followed Rules 5, 6, 7 of How To Become President," but what about Owosso's traffic rules? See cut, "Dewey in Owosso," p. 13, which pictures Manhattan's Galahad of law and order apparently walking through a red light...
...Technically, but not actually, Mr. Dewey was indeed jaywalking. Cameramen had asked him to walk across Owosso's Main Street; Mr. Dewey obliged; Owosso citizens goggled and traffic just naturally stopped...