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Swarthy, thick-maned Charles Poletti is a left-leaning lawyer, usually politically astute. As New York's Democratic Lieutenant Governor, he ran last November to succeed himself, was also backed by the American Labor Party. He lost by a mere 20,000 votes when Rival Thomas W. Wallace rode in with Republican Thomas E. Dewey. But when Governor Herbert Lehman stepped down to become U.S. Director of Foreign Relief, Charles Poletti, licked at the polls, became New York's Governor...
...days he governed the State. After Tom Dewey's inauguration Jan. 1, Poletti was jobless three days, then on Jan. 4 was taken care of by the New Deal. The job: "special assistant" to War Secretary Stimson. Of his new duties Charles Poletti said: "I don't know what they are. What difference does it make...
...Finally, to confuse the opposition, he named able Lieut. Governor Charles Poletti (a protege of Governor Herbert H. Lehman) to write the Democratic State platform...
...Earl Brown last week. A political influence in Harlem, he has friends in New York's Democratic administration. Recently he served on a special committee, appointed by Governor Lehman to study ways and means of reducing noncompetitive civil service jobs, with such bigwigs as Lieutenant Governor Charles Poletti (a classmate at Harvard), onetime New York State Commissioner of Correction Edward Mulrooney, and Mrs. Douglas Moffat, former president of the New York State League of Women Voters...
...Pricked by reports that gambling would be "wide open" at Saratoga Springs during this season's Diamond Jubilee race meeting, Lieutenant Governor Charles Poletti of New York last week gave assurance that nothing of the sort would be allowed; in Governor Herbert Lehman's absence on vacation, his office would expect the law to be enforced. As in years gone by, Saratoga's gambling public was thus obliged to bank its own games in its own parlors, or travel by night to hideouts...