Word: deweyism
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...former congressman, Wilson a governor, Cox a governor, John W. Davis a corporation lawyer, Smith and Roosevelt, both New York governors, Truman a Vice-President (Lots of vice-presidential material comes from the Senate.), and Stevenson a governor. The Republican nominees are similarly heavily pro-gubernatorial, from McKinley through Dewey...
...before in the pages of her paper. In 1948, when Editor Theodore O. Thackrey, who was also Publisher Schiff's husband (her third of four), endorsed Henry Agard Wallace for President, his wife quarreled in print for twelve weeks over his choice, wound up by endorsing Republican Thomas Dewey, firing Ted Thackrey in his capacity as editor and divorcing him in his capacity as spouse...
...with his brothers in Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel, watched the public's verdict roll up a smashing 450,000-plus victory. Rockefeller captured upstate Buffalo by 5,500 votes where Harriman had won by 10,600 in 1954, carried Schenectady County by a bigger margin than Tom Dewey in 1950, increased G.O.P. margins in suburban Westchester and Nassau Counties, held Harriman below 60% of the vote in New York City by scoring heavily with liberals, independents, minority groups. Rockefeller carried in with him the Republican state ticket, led by upstate Congressman Kenneth Keating, elected U.S. Senator over Tammany...
...Nixon when Nixon visited New York. He successfully depicted Democrat Harriman as a creature of Tammany Hall Boss Carmine De Sapio. But above all, Nelson Rockefeller, now rated a presidential possibility for 1960, won because he was a vital, vigorous new force and new face in politics. Thomas E. Dewey's one-word estimate of why Rockefeller won: "Rockefeller...
...state issues; Harriman calls this a new form of isolationism; so the candidates debate nothing. The one concrete issue that Rockefeller has raised is that of the so-called "economic drift" of the state under the Harriman administration. To this point Harriman has an apparently convincing answer: under Republican Dewey New York dropped from second to seventh in per-capita in come, but in the past three years the state has moved back up to third place...