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Drop hammers fall with ground-shaking concussions. The planishing machine makes a staccato racket that would drown out a couple of machine guns. The operators pay no attention to these shattering factory noises...
Michigan voters were embarrassed by their riches. For Senator they had to choose between statesmanlike Democrat Prentiss Marsh Brown, generally rated one of the dozen ablest men on Capitol Hill, and famed racket-busting Republican Judge Homer Ferguson, a great & good public servant. For Governor, they had their choice of big, able, incumbent Democrat Murray Delos Van Wagoner, or big, able Republican Secretary of State Harry F. Kelly, one of the most popular politicos Michigan ever...
...main thing wrong was Republican Thomas E. Dewey. At 40, the famed racket-busting boy wonder of politics, whom many regarded with suspicion, was older and wiser. He had polished his vote-getting technique to a thing of rare beauty; he had rubbed away the rough spots; he talked sound good sense that no man could identify with youthful arrogance. He began his campaign at the upstate country fairs, mingling with the crowds, signing autographs, winning friends quietly. He pledged full support of the war, proposed a liberal five-point labor program, dissected the State Democratic machines, charged that...
...years for the $70,000 kidnapping of Promoter John ("Jake the Barber") Factor in 1933, is one of the few real gangster toughies left. A runty guy (5 ft. 5, 139 lb.), he bossed the Capone-rivaling Touhy mob during Chicago's gory beer-war and kidnap-racket days, until sentence in 1934 cut him down. Slant-eyed Basil Banghart, 41, the Touhy mob's tommy-gunner, likewise was serving 99 years for the Factor job. Chicago detectives label him "a regular sharpie," tougher by far than Tough Touhy. Completely dedicated to crime and proud of his profession...
...urchin-like figure with a pigeon-toed slouch and a dark Indian face, Segura addresses a forehand shot as if he were about to kill it with an ax, often whirls so far off the ground that he seems to be swung by his racket...