Word: deweyism
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...Clarence Brown smoothly replied that what they were seeing was just the "grass roots" at work. Then he amplified: "When the Willkie crowd-the gang that's now behind Eisenhower-did this to us in 1940, they explained it was grass roots from the American people.* When the Dewey crowd did it to us . . . in 1948, they explained it was more grass roots. So what we've just seen is the finest grass roots, in the best Willkie and Dewey tradition...
Hallanan has not always been a trusted Taft lieutenant. Just after Taft was defeated by Dewey in the 1948 convention, one of Taft's most important and consistent supporters gave this description of the West Virginian: "Hallanan was a double-crosser. He double-crossed Frank Knox in 1936. He double-crossed us in 1940. We didn't trust him, but he had a hell of a row with Dewey in 1940, and we thought that would hold him. This time he went through to the last day, and then, when the going got tough, he went over...
Glee & Pain. In high glee, Taft & Co. promptly brought up a fact which only intensified the Ikemen's pain: the rule under which the committee acted was adopted in 1944 and indorsed in 1948 when the Dewey forces, now backing Ike, controlled the party machinery. If the Dewey rule holds, the number of contests the Ikemen can bring before the convention itself will be greatly decreased...
...Mamie both felt like seasoned campaigners when they flew into New York for their second major political welcome. Tom Dewey greeted them at the airport and drove them across Manhattan in his limousine to Ike's New York residence, the president's house at Columbia University...
...press conference. Ike himself was well prepared for the test. Early last month ten top Washington reporters held a mock press conference and Ike's headquarters sent the questions they dreamed up on to Paris so Ike could prepare himself. After he landed in the U.S., Governor Tom Dewey had his own press aide, James Hagerty, throw tricky questions at Ike in a long session...