Thomas Dewey Racket Buster (1 results)
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Published by New York: One-Shot Pub. Co.
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Magazine is in near fine condition with slight edge wear, slight wear to corners and spine. A wonderful copy of this scarce magazine. 98 pages and photos Magazine, size is 8 1/2" x 11". -- From Wikipedia, As a New York City prosecutor and District Attorney in the 1930s and early 1940s, Dewey was… relentless in his effort to curb the power of the American Mafia and of organized crime in general. Most famously, he successfully prosecuted Mafioso kingpin Charles "Lucky" Luciano on charges of forced prostitution in 1936. Luciano was given a 30- to 50-year prison sentence. He also prosecuted and convicted Waxey Gordon, another prominent New York City gangster and bootlegger, on charges of tax evasion. Dewey almost succeeded in apprehending Jewish mobster Dutch Schultz as well, but Schultz was murdered in 1935 in a hit ordered by The Commission itself; he had disobeyed The Commission's order forbidding him from making an attempt on Dewey's life. -- Dewey entered politics becoming the Governor of New York and running for President in 1944 and 1948 (year of the famous Chicago Daily Tribune headline Dewey Defeats Truman ) and lost both. He died in 1971.
