Word: deweyitis
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...strikingly similar situation developed after Tom Dewey's 1948 defeat. With an angry coalition of Taft and Stassen forces denouncing him as "a symbol of Dewey misrule" and demanding his departure, then National Chairman Hugh Scott called a meeting of the committee in wintry Omaha, Neb., in January 1949. As Scott laughingly recalls it, he deliberately chose an inconvenient site in hopes of reducing attendance. His strategy seemed to work, for he survived a confidence vote by a four-vote margin. But six months later, he resigned...
...start picking itself up, which will take time and cause pain. But the pattern that eventually emerges will almost certainly be designed by moderate men of the center. On a personal level, Goldwater's future as a party power seems bleak indeed. In Republican history, only Thomas E. Dewey managed to suffer defeat (in 1944) and remain the dominant man in the party through the next election. But unlike Goldwater, Dewey had a powerful, well-oiled machine. Moreover, Dewey was beaten in 1944 by Franklin Roosevelt, a wartime hero of incomparable stature, and many people felt that Dewey should...
...effort at "compromise" was made by T. Dewey Schwartzenburg '67, a member of the Executive Committee. He proposed that the general membership merely approve sending a letter to the CRIMSON explaining why the Executive Committee had not endorsed Goldwater...
...School gave him his narrowest margin. But that was the last time they ever did anything like that. Since their lone endorsement of Al Smith in 1928, they have sided with the Democrats every four years. In 1948 only they and the GSAS held firm with Truman; Dewey was overwhelmingly victorious in every other part of the University...
...however, even the Faculty and Radcliffe lost their infallibility. While the Law School and GSAS-Truman fans just squeaked out a bare majority, the Faculty swung with the University to Dewey. But they really swung. The College gave the Republican "man on the wedding cake" 66% of their vote, but the Faculty gave him 80% and Radcliffe...