Word: deweyism
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Nine floats, depicting the various phases of Dewey's life, rolled past the grandstand: Dewey building a bobsled at eleven, riding in a Model T ("College Years"), a climactic float showing him seated in the White House. Young men with burnt cork mustaches impersonated him in his adult years...
...authoritative baritone rang out clearly above the rest of the voices in the congregation. Afterwards he rode back to his mother's comfortable, old-fashioned house on Oliver Street and ate a turkey dinner. Neighbors and newsmen stood outside scuffing around in the "fallen leaves. Mrs. George Dewey's elderly roomer, Ed Stanard, a retired mail carrier, modestly kept out of sight, getting his meals elsewhere...
...Engineer Tindle, asked by newsmen to comment on Dewey's remark, observed mildly: "I think as much of Dewey as I did before and that's not very much...
...first time since the campaign began, Candidate Tom Dewey was directly challenged on two matters of political record. The challenger was the New York Times's able reporter James B. Reston. The dispute centered on the origins of the nation's bipartisan foreign policy and the European Recovery Program...
...Great Objective." In a foreign-policy address in Louisville last week, Dewey claimed-as he had before-that the bipartisan idea was all his own. "That was the great objective," he said, "when I first proposed to Secretary Hull during the election campaign four years ago that we have cooperation between our two parties to win the peace. That was the beginning of our bipartisan foreign policy...