Word: deweyism
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...read about the "Lame Duck President ... a game little fellow . . . who went down fighting with all he had . . ." Flanking the editorial were Drew Pearson, Walter Lippmann and Marquis Childs, all out on the same limb. Chicago's Journal of Commerce, in its "final" edition, referred to "President-elect" Dewey and was full of such heads as "New Regime Must Shape Trade Policy...
Three Little Words. Right up to the early hours of Wednesday, Colonel Bertie McCormick's Chicago Tribune stubbornly carried the banner headline DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN. Below it, the Trib's veteran Washington bureau chief, Arthur Sears Henning, wrote placidly that "Dewey and Warren won a sweeping victory in the presidential election yesterday ... by an overwhelming majority of electoral votes." When Harry Truman got a copy, he chuckled: "That's one for the books...
Misreporting hit a new low on the West Coast. Los Angeles papers, with a two-hour time differential in their favor, can rush eastern returns into print before the polls on the Coast close. The temptation for pro-Dewey papers to stampede some voters aboard the bandwagon was irresistible. Cried a headline in Hearst's afternoon Herald & Express: DEWEY VICTORY SEEN AS VOTE LEAD GROWS. The fact: some small New England towns had gone for Dewey. A later headline: DEWEY SWEEPING THE COUNTRY. The tabloid Mirror was equally sly with EARLY TREND GIVES DEWEY LEAD. It was based...
...were red-faced too. The New York Star's Jennings Perry could point with pride to an almost-right October column titled "It's Closer Than You Think." In the small Garden City (Kans.) Telegram (circ. 5,238), Columnist (and publisher) Gervais F. Reed had piped that Dewey would be upset. And on Oct. 25 the Prescott (Ariz.) Courier (circ. 4,720) had said that, thanks to a divine power, the President would be "sustained in office." (The publisher's wife is a Democratic national committeewoman...
...William McPhee, an alumnus of the University of Denver National Opinion Research Center, found last June that Truman would win Colorado, as he did. But they got worried when their results disagreed with Gallup's, so they jiggered them for publication in the Denver Post- to show a Dewey victory. Said McPhee: "Whittlesey and I are thinking of going out of business...