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i 7 pms (Dewey. o-Round_ me a v Beep cae: a Thomas E, Dewey, attorney-| at-law and private citizen, now slides in and out of Washington: as quietly and efficiently as he; used to slide¥from the Hotel Roosevelt in New York-to the, Governor's mansion in Albany. | He gets ‘things done. © "| ‘With three of his own meni in the’ Eisenhower Cabinet. (Dulles, Brownell and Mitchell), | {plus one of his appointees on, the Supreme Court (Justice: Harlan), plus his one-time press’ secretary, Jim Hagérty, in the! White House, Dewey should be| able to get things done in Washington. When it comes to foreign’ | Dewey. however,’ Thomas E. | Dewey has ‘a record of laying iz great big egg. When’ the Turkish govern- ment hired him at a fee of $150,000 to get them a $300 million American loan, Dew cate up with a paltry $25 mit. liog. ain, last week in Cuba, th i mah who materially, helped geq Ukesthe namination. wag unable! even to see President Batista, * plicated b ‘cant story..o.3 77 se | ‘Cuban Sugar “Magnate © oy ‘Dewey. went to Cuba on be-|. ‘half of Loeb, Rhoades, & Co.,|' ‘New. York brokers, to try to} ‘take over the Cuban-Atlantie ‘Sugar Co., largest in Cuba,‘ Behind Dewey, at least in the] minds: of Cubans, was. Julio], Lobo, who owns 12 sugar mills, |: controls a big hunk of Cuba’s|’ sugar output, and had been buying up stock: in‘ Cuban- Atlantic with a view of taking jit over, Associated with | ‘was Dewey's client, John Loeb. '' However, Lobo has unortho- tAnas Po \aox. iGcas about ALK WOO out of the international sugar. jagreement. So, for this reason Plus the fact that Cuba doesn’t {want to encourage a sugar: ‘monopoly, President Batista |blocked Lobo's raid on Cuban- | ‘Atlantic.+ He sent word to Lobo last January that his ac- ‘quisition of the company would ‘not be sanctioned, | At this point, April 5, there entered upon the scene: “Ex: | Gov. Dewey. It was announced 7 that John Loeb had bought out Lobo’s minority interest in Cuban-Atlantic, and te con- vince the Cuban government ithat this was a fact, Thomas | E, wey “dutifully - went r Havana, _ pewkt this point some “unto - happen ; Arthur « Gardner; our: “ well- . meaning Ambassador to Cuba, gave a ainner for Dewey, April 9. To~the: dinner he invited! Julio Lobo, the man who sup; ptsedly had bowed out of. sugar deal.-. Earlier that . day Lobo had married his German’ fiancee. Despite the honeymoon, launched only that day, h ever, Lobo was at the dinner—j along with Dewey’ and Jo Loeb, the man from whom su posedly he had parted companya Dewey’s job in Havana was to convince the Cuban govern-, ment that Lobo was out of :the’ Cuban-Atlantic, deal, and , the, fact that Lobo: was at‘the dins ner convinced them of Just, th } opposite, 5 pagecN ®t Aes Unable to see President: ‘Bas tista, Dewey tried to. "see Amadeo Lopez Castro’ and’ Jorge Barroso, both ministers. without portfolio and the top. government men in Cuba when’ it comes to sugar. Both ac: cepted a luncheon. engagement; then backed out. - Finally. Ambassador. Gardner, got Dewey ‘in to see Martinez’ z, head of the’ Natio. Ba k of Cuba.” * At this point Thomas E- ‘De * y Nattorney-at: law, went homb: \ coopriess, 1054, Bell Syndicate,’ Inc, a,