Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Messrs. Sloan and Knudsen promptly walked out and abandoned their conference with Governor Murphy and Madam Secretary Perkins. Mr. Sloan declared that after Mr. Lewis' demand it was "futile" to continue. The press, including many liberal papers generally sympathetic with Mr. Lewis, expressed its disapprobation. The genteel New York Times said: "Mr. Lewis had a full supply of impudence with him." If President Roosevelt had been embarrassed by John Lewis' demand that his automobile union be accorded the right to speak for all General Motors workers, he had reason to be even more embarrassed by Mr. Lewis...
...could not be reached with fists, something huge and vague and sinister. He dodged that fight, paid his forfeit. Jack Dempsey was ready to fight last week because a dauntless little man with a brown mustache had come forward to champion him and thousands upon thousands of reputable New York businessmen who had been similarly terrorized and mulcted. The new champion was Thomas Edmund Dewey, 34, for 18 months the head and heart of New York City's famed Dewey racket investigation. Tweed to Walker, Ever since the State Legislature in 1853 stripped police-appointing powers from the city...
...them. In May, convinced that they were being deliberately impeded, they took the extraordinary step of barring an assistant district attorney from their proceedings. After this clean break with local officialdom, their next move was to plump their rage and scorn and indignation square on the doorstep of New York's Herbert...
...reputed boss, Arthur ("Tootsie") Herbert, and two of his lieutenants on charges of embezzling from the labor union which they controlled. Policy-Week before last the patient Dewey researches bore fruit in three moves characteristic of his methods and purposes. The policy racket (numbers game), by which small New York City betters are mulcted of some $50,000,000 per year (TIME, Jan. 4), was once a Dutch Schultz monopoly. It passed on his death to Luciano and has since been divided among several large rings, hundreds of small independent "bankers." Setting up temporary headquarters one evening^ in upper Riverside...
...books of city power companies, of three trade associations, private contractors, and of a local of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (an A. F. of L. affiliate). A Dewey aide charged that the leaders of the union had, by violence aided a monopoly of electrical contracting which cost New York citizens $10,000,000 per year. Baking. Two days later Mr. Dewey closed in, after more than a year of sleuthing, on a baking racket. He arrested a lawyer, the owner of one of the city's largest cake & pastry bakeries, and the president and business agent...