Word: deweyism
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...Disturb. It was in Missouri that the bursitis attacked the candidate, the pain centering in his right shoulder. He applied a hot water bottle, failed to take Mrs. Dewey's advice to rub oil on his skin, and ended up with a burn...
...Chicago, Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart appeared at 7 a.m. Wearing a cigar at a jaunty angle, trailed by a delegation of Indiana politicians which included the late Wendell Willkie's son, Philip, Homer stepped aboard the hushed train. A bodyguard barred the way to the Dewey bedroom. The candidate was not to be disturbed; he had set aside this morning for sleeping. The Victory Special rocked on into Indiana while Mr. Dewey slept on and Capehart and party huddled in car No. 3, an ordinary Pullman for miscellaneous visitors. Capehart was boiling. Not until three...
...Charles Halleck, Majority Leader of the House, who had wanted very much to be Vice President. On the platform stood Charlie himself. He was not invited to board the train and he looked more disconsolate than usual when the candidate majestically appeared. But Charlie cheered up later when Mr. Dewey, making a speech at the town's little St. Joseph's College, referred to Congressman Halleck as "one of the oldest friends I have in public life." During the rest of the speech Charlie beamed, clapping at every opportunity...
...train rolled on to Jackson, Mich., where the power & glory of the state's Republicanism-Senators Arthur Vandenberg and Homer Ferguson, Governor Kim Sigler-appeared. So did Mrs. George Dewey, the candidate's mother, whom he calls "Mater." She cried.: "Where's my Tommy?" With one arm around Mater and one around his wife, the candidate stood on the rear platform. "Was there ever such a lucky man as I am?" he asked the train-side crowd. "I have a wonderful mother and a wonderful wife and they are both here with...
...week's end the Victory Special came triumphantly to Owosso (pop. 18,000), the candidate's home town. Some 20,000 people lined the streets as the motorcade carried the Deweys up Main Street, past the second-story apartment over Colvin's home appliance store where Dewey was born, up to the Owosso High School Stadium, where nine bands blared...