Word: deweyism
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...news conference, the President seemed in quiet good humor. "What do you think of Governor Dewey personally?'' blurted a newsman. He liked him personally, Truman replied promptly. What did he think about Dewey's proposal-made to a delegation of Italian-Americans-that Italy's former African colonies be returned to Italian administration under a U.N. trusteeship? Truman's voice was mild but edged. Under the Italian peace treaty, he said, the disposition of these colonies is under consideration by the Big Four powers. If they do not reach an agreement, the problem will...
South Carolina's Thurmond, who fervently hoped to capture Texas and its 23 electoral votes, made it plain to his cheering audience, at least, that the Dixiecrats were the only hope of the South-yes, of the whole country. He lumped Harry Truman, Tom Dewey and Henry Wallace together and solemnly declared that they all hoped to give the country the "new Russian look." Harry Truman's civil-rights program, he said, was a plot to make the U.S. a police state...
Where the People Stand (Sun. 2:45 p.m., CBS). Elmo Roper weighs the popular satisfaction and dissatisfaction with the Truman-Barkley, Dewey-Warren tickets...
...Turnip Day" session had been a failure. Neither side had gained any political advantage, although Republican refusal to act made it easier for Harry Truman to pin a do-nothing label on the 80th Congress. But New York's Senator Irving Ives dropped a loud hint that Tom Dewey would probably disassociate himself from the G.O.P. congressional record in the campaign...
...eight DC-3s and $300,000 in assets, has never had a crackup. A fortnight ago Wildcatter Weiss got a chance to purr: because of a boycott of New York International (Idlewild) Airport by domestic airlines, the airport management hired Standard to fly Governor Thomas E. Dewey to Idlewild for the dedication ceremonies. Last week Weiss asked the Civil Aeronautics Board to certify Standard as a scheduled carrier, said frankly that he had been making scheduled flights (forbidden under his "irregular" registration) for the last five months...