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When Racketbuster Tom Dewey last week wound up his biggest case, the most interesting item for New Yorkers was not the four-to-eight-year sentence imposed on Tammany Boss Jimmy Hines for selling protection at $30,000 a year to the city's "numbers" racket.† More significant...
Jimmy Hines's father was a master horseshoer in Manhattan. To profit by shoeing police and fire horses, he had to be close to the Tammany machine. His shop was a hangout for neighborhood politicians and young Jimmy, who at 14 quit eighth grade to start working in the...
When Jimmy was 17, Hines Sr. sickened never to recover. Jimmy ran the smithy, by 21 was acting for his father as election district captain. Twice he was arrested for street fighting, once for assaulting a girl whom he took to a hotel and afterwards refused to marry-wild oats...
Heywood Broun began writing his column in the World in 1921; F. P. A. moved The Conning Tower from the Tribune in 1922; in 1923 Walter Lippmann took charge of the editorial page; from 1925 to 1928 Alexander Woollcott flourished as the World's dramatic critic. Rollin Kirby wrote...
Memorable for Harry Hopkins' speech in Iowa, which may help decide the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1940 (see p. 11), last week was also punctuated by a speech from the leading Republican Presidential possibility. Scene was the Manhattan courtroom of General Sessions Judge Charles C. Nott Jr. There 62...