Word: deweyism
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...LEWIS LEHRMAN somehow were elected to succeed New York Gov. Hugh Carey, the Democratic pols were laughing this summer. New York would be the only state to have had governors Hughie, Dewey, and Lewie. But those same Democratic pols were the ones laughing this summer at the thought that anyone could beat New York Mayor Edward I. Koch in a Democratic gubernatorial primary. They're not laughing anymore...
...back in history: [Admiral George] Dewey and his promises, the proclamation of independence. When the veterans had to send a mission to the U.S. to claim their rights after the second World War. The Bell Trade Act [of 1946] was a symbol of one-sidedness: we were obligated to allow all American products to come into our country free. But eight principal Philippine products were given quotas by the U.S.* And the U.S. reserved the power to impose restrictions on any product imported from the Philippines that would compete with any American product...
Charley is No. 5 in the hierarchy, and there is seemingly nothing to block his ascent-until he falls heel over head in love with a semigorgeous broad named Irene Walker. To the hulking bachelor hoodlum, she is "a classic, like the Truman win over Dewey." Irene is not Sicilian, but a Pole from Los Angeles who is semimarried to a Jew; she is also a freelance assassin who has shot one man for the Prizzis and, on the side, scammed them for $360 ($360? The other 000 is always omitted in family conversation, supposedly "to confuse the tourists"). Novelist...
...Dewey Spangler, a top-flight newspaper columnist a la Alsop who wields more power than any single senator, a boyhood chum of Corde's who turns up on swing through Eastern Europe. As a kid, Spangler was inebriated with Swinburne, Wilde, Nietzsche. Now he is slick, in analysis, still a bit cowed by Corde, and at the same time vindictive...