Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the convention, his political advisers had put Tom Dewey just behind Arthur Vandenberg in their rating of candidates hardest for Harry Truman to beat. With Earl Warren's nomination for Vice President, Democratic strategists gave up any remaining hope of carrying California...
Three months ago, earnest, angular Editor Ben McKelway of the Washington Star called one of his reporters on the carpet. To 29-year-old Tom G. Buchanan Jr., who covered the medical beat, the boss put one question: Are you a Communist? Reporter Buchanan, an ex-Army captain, replied that he was (an admission that most good Communists regard as naive). McKelway carefully assured Buchanan that his work had been satisfactory. Then he fired...
...sheer sake of verbosity; he made hyperbole into a principle of composition. Everything he described was either incredibly glorious or incredibly distasteful. On a visit to Greece he felt "a stillness so intense that for a fraction of a second I heard the great heart of the world beat. . ." Revisiting the cities of America he found "a vast, unorganized lunatic asylum . . . the most horrible place on God's earth." Critic Alfred Kazin once said of him: "Is there anything more American than the picture of this last and most violent of the expatriates, hating America and all its deeds...
...Dewey's job, in the week before the convention, was to make sure the delegates already pledged to him stuck tight to the bargain-and then to beat the bushes for more delegates...
...been on top too long to be hungry, is incentive. No one doubted that the old Joe Louis could knock Joe Walcott stiff in a round or two. The big question, to be answered next week in Yankee Stadium, is whether the present-day Joe Louis can still beat anybody-even a deserving never-was like hungry Jersey...