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...Deal days. One of the exceptions was in 1946, when Bakewell was swept into Congress for one term by the new Republican broom. This time, Candidate Bakewell had a ready-made campaign issue. He struck put at the city's powerful new Democratic machine, run by Lawyer Morris Shenker and his partner, Sheriff Thomas F. Callanan, an ex-bootlegger...
Portia Faces Life. In St. Louis, Mrs. Lillian A. Shenker, serving her first day as provisional judge in City Court, explained why she had fined a man $50 for beating his wife but had dismissed the case of another man charged with cuffing his girl friend: "The wife . . . has to live with [her husband] and can't escape . . . but the other man had beaten his girl before and experience should have taught her what to expect...