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...government of Madagascar last year. His chief deputy was U.S. Brigadier General Frank J. McSherry, an engineer who has been in the Army since 1917 and has been an executive in various war agencies since 1938. Also in Sicily was New York's ex-Governor, Lieut. Colonel Charles Poletti. A notable absentee: Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia...
...Governor Poletti had paroled 15 New York convicts, twelve of them on recommendation of New York's Parole Board. The other three, all convicted of labor-union terrorism, were freed without Parole Board recommendations. In New York City only the Daily Worker, Communist organ, carried the news. Other papers ignored it for ten days. The Worker carried another story, welcoming the labor terrorists back to the fold. Then the New York World-Telegram dug up the story, belatedly revealed that Poletti had not consulted the Parole Board. Things began to pop. The austere, thorough New York Times reported...
Editorially the World-Telegram bemoaned the "prison-opening impulses of transient, interim governors" and implied that by paroling Arsonist Hoffman, Poletti was currying Labor's favor "as a future political asset...
Hearst's Journal-American poured huge black headlines on Poletti. Out came Hoffman's record of arrests: felonious assault, 1929; assault, 1931; felonious assault, 1932; malicious mischief (planting "stink bombs"), 1937. The tabloid Daily News, strongly anti-New Deal, swung from the floor with a double-truck haymaker, telling how Hoffman, in 1940, was convicted for trying to start a fire in a non-union cleaning & dyeing plant by sending clothes in which had been hidden incendiary phosphorous pellets coated with paraffin (which would melt when heated during the cleaning process...
Only the Times, of all New York's conservative papers, maintained an unruffled calm. It carefully printed all possible news about Poletti's troubles, but editorially it studiously refrained from opinions...