Word: deweyism
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...Republican side, Senator Joseph C. McCarthy with eight, Senator Wayne Morse, Governor Alfred E. Driscoll, Governor Thomas Dewey, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., McGeorge Bundy, associate professor of Government, and President Conant were given votes...
...York's Governor Tom Dewey, who tried and lost for the G.O.P. in 1944 and 1948, described last week how he feels as he watches the party's 1952 models go by. Said Dewey, as he introduced Candidate Earl Warren (Dewey's 1948 vice-presidential running mate) at a $100-a-plate Manhattan Republican dinner...
Four years ago this month, Harold E. Stassen was the one man to beat for the Republican presidential nomination. The former Minnesota governor had swept to significant primary victories in Wisconsin and Nebraska, walloping Dewey, Taft, MacArthur, Warren and any others who got in his way. His supporters had a slogan: "No surpassin' Harold Stassen...
...Dewey eventually exploded the 1948 Stassen balloon. This year the surpassin' came earlier. On leave from his job as president of the University of Pennsylvania, Stassen has been rolling through primary states, winding up at dead ends. In New Hampshire, he ran a poor third behind Eisenhower and Taft. In his own Minnesota, where his was the only name on the ballot, the total write-in vote for other candidates outnumbered his Xs. His name was on the ballot in Nebraska but he was third, behind write-in votes...
...York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey got some criticism last year when he refused to appear before the televised Kefauver committee meeting in Manhattan. Last week Dewey made it clear that his attitude has not changed. In signing a bill outlawing televised public hearings in the state of New York, Dewey added a strong supporting message charging that it is "basic to our concept of justice that a witness compelled to testify have a fair opportunity to present his testimony. No right is more basic to our traditional liberties. The use of television, motion- pictures and radio at such...