Word: deweyism
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Outlining future plans, McWhorter promised that a large cheering section of the HYRC would be at Fenway Park on October 28, when Governor Dewey speaks there...
...there's something I can't see. Maybe it's because I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, like my mother says. But when I put those sentences back with their fellow sentences, and read them in the order that Dewey said them, I can't see any improvement. Take his speech on inflation in San Francisco last Saturday. A major part of it was an outline of six "steps" that would beat inflation. Most of them are about bringing "able and honest people to Washington, "men and women of integrity", or about "vigorously supporting our American system...
...mouth shut. But every so often I can't hold back any longer. Like now. I have here before me a little release the Democratic National Committee sent to the press over the weekend. It insists that the Democratic Party "is in complete agreement" with a number of things Dewey has said. Things such as these: "Our streams should abound with fish," (Denver, Sept. 21); "Everybody that rides in a car or bus uses gasoline and oil," (also in Denver); "You know that your future is still ahead of you," (Phoenix, Sept. 23); and "Ours is a magnificent land--every...
...debate raging over such statements. . ." and hopes that "they can be removed from the realm of partisan politics." It calls all this "an effort to encourage national unity." Now I can see well enough that it's nothing of the kind. It's an effort to poke fun at Dewey's speeches, and a silly effort at that. Almost anybody this side of Dogpatch knows that you could get the same results out of Hamlet if you removed single sentences here and there...
...Pacific northwest, GOP candidate Governor Dewey charted a vast development of natural resources to give America "more power to wage the peace." Dewey's running mate Governor Warren entered New England, declaring that government must be revitalized at the state and local level...