Word: deverism
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...opponents," cried Dever, "brought forth in this building a shopworn declaration, conceived in malice and dedicated to the proposition that all the great achievements of the last 20 years should be swept away." As for the Republican nomination: "Was it a conflict over policies and philosophies? Was it an effort to replace the Old Guard with the new?" Not at all, said Dever. "This was a battle between the stalwarts and the opportunists. An ungrateful crew threw overboard the faithful pilot . . . and placed at their head one whose knowledge of navigation was confined to other waters . . ." Eisenhower, said Dever...
...Dever sweepingly claimed Democratic credit for the defeat of the Kaiser, Hitler and (somewhat prematurely) Stalin, and blamed all the U.S.'s foreign policy troubles on 1) the Republicans, and 2) "Russian perfidy...
...phantoms: apple sellers stood disconsolately around street corners, the bonus marchers once more tried to storm Washington, mean-eyed sheriffs foreclosed mortgages across the land. In the background there was a steady rain of statistics showing that everybody, including business, was infinitely better off than in 1932. "Suppose," Dever cried, "the dinosaurs of political thought came into power! . . . Suppose these rugged individualists abandoned the farmer to the ravages of uncontrolled free enterprise, and the toiler to the mercies of the sweatshop of former days...
Corruption? Governor Dever did not hesitate to mention corruption-briefly. Cried he, hurling the statistic of the year: "The Democratic Party pays tribute to the 99.84% of federal employees whose character is above suspicion...
...reverberations of Governor Dever's keynote speech had scarcely died away, before the Democrats were locked in a bitter struggle. Contests over rival delegations from Texas and Mississippi were made the excuse for the fight-but the cause lay far deeper...