Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Like a prosecutor confronting a stubborn defendant with his own damning confession, Tom Dewey had a field day with a hatful of hapless Administration quotes, including some from Franklin Roosevelt. He recalled that, in January 1940, he himself had called for a two-ocean Navy. That statement had been branded by F.D.R. as "just plain dumb." Cracked Tom Dewey: "Then, as now, we got ridicule instead of action...
...vice president of Reynolds Metals Co., whose plants have been fabulously expanded by war contracts, called on U.S. businessmen to rally behind Franklin Roosevelt. Said he: "Business had its sad experience with The Great Engineer and now it doesn't want to take any chance with The Great Prosecutor...
Like an able prosecutor, Tom Dewey took his case before the U.S. jury. It was his biggest case, and well he knew it. He was excited, and a trifle nervous. For one thing, he had to overcome a widespread feeling that he was just a little man with a mustache taking off against The Champ...
...front-row seats, wads of bills to bet at the races, comfortable bank accounts in his wife's name. He controlled judges and cops. His friends ranged from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer, the "numbers" king. The vote was his bludgeon and his armor; when Prosecutor Tom Dewey came belling toward him up a trail of racket-busting evidence, Jimmy was unruffled...
When the court announced the two weeks' recess, one of Prosecutor Rogge's harassed staff cracked: "Will we have a vacation every summer...