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...from the State constitutional convention which he was attending, reached Manhattan at 1 a. m., sat down at home to inspect a complaint against one James J. Hines, alleged conspirator and partner in the operation of the sprawling city's $100,000,000-per-year "policy" or "numbers" racket. Justice McCook signed a warrant for Hines's arrest...
...Dewey has convicted all but one of his racket indictees. Should he jail elusive Jimmy Hines, it may be hard to keep New York Republicans from drafting Dewey for Governor this autumn.* His chances of being elected to that office would be comparable to those of famed Charles Seymour Whitman, who in 1915, after convicting Police Lieutenant Charles Becker of murdering Gambler Herman Rosenthal, ascended from D. A. to Governor in one swift vault. Should Tom Dewey perform that feat in this day of dearth in Republican manpower, by 1940 the Party which used to be called Grand as well...
...conduct for interrupting a Philadelphia meeting of American War Mothers, whom she accused of profiteering on Mother's Day carnations. In 1934 she kept James Aloysius Farley from putting "Mother's Day" on his special 3? Whistler's Mother stamp, which she said was just another racket. Last week on Mother's Day she contented herself with denouncing a Manhattan "Mother's Peace Day" parade and a "Parents' Day" meeting in Central Park. (One of her current slogans is "Don't Kick Mother out of Mother's Day.") Then she dedicated...
Next Flynn got wind of the lucrative "recruiting" racket. A more or less benevolent breed of blackbirders, recruiters do not enslave native boys but cart them away, presumably with parental permission, to work in the gold fields at approximately ten shillings a month. For the recruiter, the bounty is ?20 a head for boys willing to indenture themselves for three years. Flynn saw to it that most of his boys signed up for three years. He did it with biscuits, teaching the boys to expect one biscuit when he held up one finger, two for two, three for three. When...
There's usually a number of Lowellites watching proceedings, particularly the dance rehearsals. The more pessimistic ones say, "We can't do any work with all that racket going on anyway...