Word: ashmead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Loudest caterwauling came from New York, where Tom Dewey and New York County Chairman Kenneth Simpson came within an ace of saying what they thought about one another. A longstanding, bitter, personal enmity came out into the open. Said Deweyman Warren B. Ashmead, Queens County committeeman trying to oust Mr. Simpson as national committeeman: "There had to be a showdown sooner or later." Said Mr. Simpson: "I am now of course relieved from any further favorite-son support of Mr. Dewey...