Word: deweyitis
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Former Attorney General Herbert Brownell, who steered Tom Dewey to prominence and helped catapult Ike into the presidency, emerged from seven years of political retirement to run Keating's campaign. "This thing got me sore," he said. "If Kennedy is elected, it will establish that a rich man can come in, make a deal with bosses, and change our whole constitutional system. H. L. Hunt could go in and run in some Rocky Mountain state. Governor Wallace could run where he pleased. This is outrageous...
...first post-war poll, in 1948, clearly indicated that things were changing around Harvard. Although Dewey got 52 per cent of the vote, the University split its vote schizophrenically. The breakdown...
...Dewey 1520, Truman 739, Thomas 215, Wallace 212. Thurmond 95, Undecided 95, Other Candidates...
...rear, recognizing Miller, cried out sarcastically: "Welcome to Hutchinson." Retorted Miller: "Thank you. And Merry Christmas." And in Reno, a little old lady who had just shaken Miller's hand turned to a friend and clucked: "The last time I shook a candidate's hand it was Dewey's. And it didn't do him any good either." The biggest audience that Miller drew all week was 5,000 in San Antonio. Most of the time, he spoke to audiences numbering in the hundreds...
Greenwood: MFDP delegates Dewey Green and Mary Lane, given summonses to appear in court on Oct. 26. Some speculation that all 68 MFDP delegates may be charged with contempt of court for having disobeyed an earlier court order which enjoined the MFDP from functioning...