Governor Tom Dewey kept his famous pre-election promise. When failing old (74) Republican Joe Hanley stepped aside last September so that Dewey could run for a third term, Dewey made "an ironclad, unbreakable arrangement" with Hanley to give him a state job in case he failed to win a seat in the U.S. Senate. The "Hanley Letter," in which Joe discussed the deal and his own big debts, was the sensation of the campaign. Last week, Defeated Candidate Joe Hanley, who has lost one eye and is having trouble with the other, got his consolation prize: a $16,000-a-year job...
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