Politics aside, I could and can respect the men, Dewey and Romney. I'd have no problem awarding either a civic award. I wouldn't want to see Romney anywhere near the White House, just like my father couldn't bring himself to vote for Dewey. Harry Truman was the only Democrat Presidential candidate who my father voted for in his life. He just didn't like Dewey's politics.
I was watching a mob documentary the other day. When Tom Dewey was putting heat on the mob in his role as special prosecutor, Dutch Schultz wanted to assassinate Dewey and talked to Lucky Luciano and the Commission about it. Luciano told Schultz that the mob wasn't going to kill honest cops. This policy was not based on the morals of the action but on a more practical reason - it would bring too much heat on the mob. Lots of irony in this situation. Because the Commission didn't think that Schultz was going to take their "advice", a contract was put out on Schultz, who was whacked. The one who would have benefited the most from Dewey's assassination would have been Luciano who made the decision which probably saved Dewey's life and ultimately led to Luciano's deportation. Given the era and the social mores of the time, I think it speaks volumes of Dewey's character that he was seen by the mob as being incorruptible.
‘I was watching a mob documentary the other day. When Tom Dewey was putting heat on the mob in his role as special prosecutor, Dutch Schultz wanted to assassinate Dewey and talked to Lucky Luciano and the Commission about it. Luciano told Schultz that the mob wasn’t going to kill honest cops. This policy was not based on the morals of the action but on a more practical reason - it would bring too much heat on the mob. Lots of irony in this situation. Because the Commission didn’t think that Schultz was going to take their “advice”, a contract was put out on Schultz, who was whacked. The one who would have benefited the most from Dewey’s assassination would have been Luciano who made the decision which probably saved Dewey’s life and ultimately led to Luciano’s deportation. Given the era and the social mores of the time, I think it speaks volumes of Dewey’s character that he was seen by the mob as being incorruptible.’
Interesting story. Thanks for posting.
....that he was seen by the mob as being incorruptible.
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Also, in 1944 - the story goes - Dewey was going to claim that FDR knew in advance that Pearl Harbor was going to be attacked.
Everyone in the Military got their shorts in an uproar as they were afraid if this charge had been leveled, the Japanese would find out we had broken their code.
Dewey was convinced to ‘back off’ and it more than likely cost him the election.