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...became a national hero overnight, the prototype for all subsequent gang-busting radio programs. In his two years as special prosecutor, he made a record of 72 convictions out of 73 indictments; in his last year as D.A., 96.5% were convicted or pleaded guilty. His zeal for convictions led to one blunder. In 1938, his office got one Bertram Campbell convicted of forgery. Campbell spent three years in jail, was later found to be innocent. As governor, Dewey signed a bill giving Campbell the right to sue the state for damages. Campbell collected $115,000, died three months later...
...whole, the battle was going badly. Few & far between were Catholic organizers who reached the Italian people with the zeal, organizing ability and imagination of Don Francesco Miconi, parish priest of Riofreddo, a village of 914 souls, high up in the Apennines. TIME Correspondent William Rospigliosi cabled the following account of how Don Francesco went forth to battle...
...Limit? Unquestionably, the ladies lacked the crinoline-&-poke-bonnet zeal of their forerunners. Perhaps they had become jaded with success. There were even some faint, uncertain signs of a retreat. One woman delegate knitted steadily through the three-day session. Another viewed with alarm the idea of community-cooked meals as a chore-saver. "Too many women find creative satisfaction in cooking," she cried. There were other signs of a return to old-fashioned ideas. The corset had already re-encircled the female waist; motherhood was at a 30-year peak of popularity...
...Canada's Barbara Ann Scott won the women's world championship for the second year in a row, making it all three for her too. Several outclassed rivals, including overtrained U.S. Champion Gretchen Merrill, didn't bother to compete. But Barbara Ann practiced with unflagging zeal, cautiously observing that "anything can happen." Nothing out of the ordinary...
...Players. It was done with some of the feverish zeal of the war, and in spite of some of the same shortages of materials. Steel was flown by plane to factories to keep production lines rolling; "expediters" hunted down parts and materials tucked away in obscure corners, or prowled in grey markets for steel and lumber; newspapers headlined the Scoreboard of production like bulletins from the front...