Word: deweyism
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...turn the session into a bitter political battlefield (see cut). Southern Senators had agreed on the strategy to be used against any civil-rights program-Harry Truman's or the Republicans': filibuster at the first show of a bill. Most Republicans, taking their cue from noncommittal Tom Dewey, were waiting for the reaction to Harry Truman's message to Congress; but among them there was also heady talk of forcing a swift adjournment...
...Kremlin was looking for signs of wavering, it found no comfort in the Republican opposition. At his Pawling, N.Y. farm, Governor Thomas E. Dewey conferred with Harold Stassen, talked daily with Foreign Adviser Dulles, who had been thoroughly briefed by George Marshall. General Dwight Eisenhower accepted an urgent invitation to come up for a talk. At a joint press conference, Eisenhower declared: "We agreed that our country must stand with absolute firmness in Berlin...
After conferring with Senator Arthur Vandenberg and Dulles, Dewey issued a formal statement that carried the weight of G.O.P. policy. Said he: "The present duty of Americans is not to be divided by past lapses, but to unite to surmount present dangers ... In Berlin, we must not surrender our rights under duress...
...Macy's, neatly fusing politics with haberdashery, offered its customers the Candidate Cravat-a 99? necktie of "rich, fullbodied rayon" bearing a picture of either Harry Truman or Tom Dewey...
Idlewild Airport Dedication (Sat. 2:30 p.m., all radio networks; ABC & NBC television). President Harry Truman, Governor Thomas E. Dewey and New York's Mayor William O'Dwyer...