Word: deweyism
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...Communists had finished off Manchuria, prices were skyrocketing, and Dewey had lost the U.S. elections. At 40 to the dollar, the gold yuan had sunk in two weeks to a tenth of its original value. A wave of defeatism swept Nationalist China. Frail Wong Wen-hao, a geologist in private life, tried three times to resign as Premier, finally agreed to hang on until Chiang Kai-shek could find a successor...
...sights TV,showed were really something to see: the mounting uneasiness of Pollsters George Gallup and Elmo Roper as they tried through the night to explain figures that continued to defy their predictions; the smug expression on the face of Republican Campaign Manager Brownell as he twice claimed a Dewey victory; the glum face of Democratic National Chairman McGrath as he first expressed confidence in his candidate, the camera's slow pan around G.O.P. headquarters after dawn, the empty, gaily decorated Hotel Roosevelt ballroom, with no one left to hear a victory speech that no one was to deliver...
Some of the sights were boring nonsense. Too often, the pictures lacked imagination: a commentator droning from a script; a couple of them chattering aimlessly; dull interviews with men-in-the-street or with friends and neighbors of Tom Dewey...
...candidates themselves grinned from poster portraits, but never in the flesh. President Truman was in Missouri, out of TV range, and Governor Dewey's Manhattan suite was placed off limits by the secret service men who had come up from Washington to guard the next President. As interviewees, that left Candidate Henry Wallace (who looked bitter and pompous), Candidate Norman Thomas (chipper and witty) and major & minor party officials...
...flashed its "exclusive" sign at times to herald an interview that proved neither exclusive nor very exciting. LIFE and NBC representatives appeared almost always in pairs, though often there obviously was not even enough work for one man. And in the end, its commentators stayed out on the Dewey limb long after other stations had shinnied down to the ground...