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After 17 days of golf and rest in Arizona sunshine, Tom Dewey returned last week to his job in Albany. He had gained five pounds and his tanned jowls showed it. Newsmen pressed him with questions about his future. Would he run in 1950 for a third term as governor of New York? Dewey smiled, reminded the reporters that he had answered that question the day after election. He had said then "I have no such plans." Now he added: "I will let you know if I change my mind...
Share the Loot. It was principally Irey and his men who broke up Huey Long's gang, gave young District Attorney Tom Dewey the evidence with which to convict Beer Baron Waxie Gordon, jailed Johnny Torrio (who proposed a deal: "Leave us cut out the shooting, boys, there's enough here for everybody"), broke the Lindbergh case and busted up the Pendergast machine...
Charles J. West '50 was elected President of the Young Democrats at Harvard at a special meeting of the club last night. West succeeds William W. Oppenheim '49, who was ousted from the group in October when he chose to back Thomas E. Dewey for president...
...that the man with a majority of popular votes has lost the election. Tilden beat Hayes by over 200,000 votes in 1876; yet he lost. Cleveland beat Harrison by over 100,000 votes in 1888; yet he lost. And in the 1948 election a few more votes for Dewey in two key states would have given the decision to the House--despite the fact that Truman had a 2,000,000 vote edge over Dewey...
...allowing the columnists to do it for him. This has so irked the prophets that they have almost left off prognosticating Forrestal's successor. However, a few columns have come forth grudgingly to nominate General Eisenhower, Army Secretary Royall, and Henry L. Stimson, who was in the Cabinet when Dewey was knocking around in knickers...