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...Albany, "in the light of the national emergency and the international crisis," Governor Thomas E. Dewey canceled plans for the traditional inauguration ball...
Before a battery of microphones at the annual dinner of the New York County Lawyers Association, Governor Dewey advocated: calling up the entire National Guard forthwith; universal military service; de-mothballing the entire Navy; a draft step-up to give the U.S. 100 divisions, each nearly twice the size of Russian divisions; an Air Force of at least 80 groups...
...tone and temper, Governor Dewey's proposals were more impressive than the Administration's, though he had the advantage of being able to call for acts and programs he did not have to deliver on. Timed as it was, Governor Dewey's forceful speech put the prestige of the Republican Party's titular head behind all that President Truman proposed to do, and then some...
...Sure Thing. The committee was staggered by Willie's report of election winnings in 1948. Said he: "I didn't win too much on horses that year. But I had a sure thing going for me. I had President Truman ... I win $10,000 on that Dewey don't carry New York City by 640,000, even money." Asked by the eager committee how he bet this year, Willie looked puzzled. "There's no outstanding candidate this year, is there? . . . Just the race track this year...
Governor Tom Dewey kept his famous pre-election promise. When failing old (74) Republican Joe Hanley stepped aside last September so that Dewey could run for a third term, Dewey made "an ironclad, unbreakable arrangement" with Hanley to give him a state job in case he failed to win a seat in the U.S. Senate. The "Hanley Letter," in which Joe discussed the deal and his own big debts, was the sensation of the campaign. Last week, Defeated Candidate Joe Hanley, who has lost one eye and is having trouble with the other, got his consolation prize...