Word: deweyitis
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...Surely Goldwater has now demonstrated his tremendous vote-getting abilities even to the satisfaction of those who would love to nominate again the 1964 counterparts of Dewey and Willkie. Honest Republicans could not support or work for any other nominee should Senator Goldwater be cheated of the nomination...
Recent history points to the flaw in the theory. As it happens, losers have an awfully hard time controlling anything thereafter. Alf Landon certainly didn't control the Republican Party after 1936. Neither did Wendell Willkie after 1940, or Dick Nixon after 1960. Tom Dewey did maintain his control between 1944 and 1948, but he did it with the help of a superb political machine. Goldwater has no such machine, and the chances that he could control the G.O.P. after defeat seem negligible...
...blast was aimed at one target, Republican Governor George Dewey Clyde. The Utah Education Association, the N.E.A. affiliate that represents 98% of the state's public-school teachers, thought it had wrung a concession from Clyde last summer when he named a committee to investigate their demands for more money to run the schools. A fortnight ago, the committee recommended spending $6,000,000 on selective wage increases (average salary: $5,900), hiring new teachers, buying more books and equipment. Clyde rejected the report the day it came out. The U.E.A. at once called a strike-causing one father...
Connie Hoffman, a white woman, and Dewey McLaughlin, a Spanish-speaking merchant seaman of Honduran origin, were convicted under this law in Miami Beach in 1962. Each was sentenced to 30 days in jail and a $150 fine. The defendants appealed to the Florida Supreme Court and were turned down in light of what Justice Millard Caldwell called "the sound rule of stare decisis" (following precedents) and "the well-written decision" of Pace. Let the U.S. Supreme Court decide, added Caldwell caustically, "if the newfound concept of 'social justice' has outdated 'the law of the land...
...political associates in Oregon, and Wes Phillips, his executive secretary for Oregon in 1960, plans to announce soon the names of a state chairman and other officials for a late-starting Nixon campaign. If Nixon himself should then decide to jump into the presidential campaign, he might repeat Tom Dewey's victory. If he stays out, then Lodge looks like the winner...