Word: deweyitis
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...Patricia for a job, marked her application "see again." When Patricia tried to see Capital again, she was told that Capital never reinterviewed. She took her case to New York's State Commission Against Discrimination, watchdog of New York's civil rights law, passed at Governor Tom Dewey's urging 15 years...
...done without planning and organization, and Jack Kennedy has the smoothest-running, widest-ranging, most efficient personal organization in the Democratic Party today. It has men, money and brains; his opponents claim it is the most savvy and hard-nosed group put together in U.S. politics since Tom Dewey and Herb Brownell swept Taft out of the G.O.P. race...
...This problem of continuity has also occurred to Presidents. In 1932 Herbert Hoover invited Franklin D. Roosevelt to briefings on policy and work in progress. Harry Truman, anxious to keep his 1948 opponent informed on foreign-policy developments, ordered a Teleprinter installed on Tom Dewey's campaign train, sent him "important messages that came to me on the subject of international affairs." Similarly, in 1952, he invited President-elect ' Eisenhower to the White House for chats about the "transition period...
Great-granddaddy of the presidential-preference laws that survive today in 15 states and the District of Columbia, Wisconsin's primary also became the country's biggest burying ground for the hopes of hopefuls. By favoring New York's Thomas Dewey, G.O.P. primary voters put Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg out of the nomination race in 1940, ended Hoosier Wendell Willkie's bid for a second nomination in 1944; their votes for Minnesota's Harold Stassen stopped the 1948 campaign to nominate General Douglas MacArthur; the vote for California's Earl Warren (locally...
...with the rest of the vote scattered over other candidates. Also, he was about to head into a new session with his state legislature, and some upstate Republicans, solid for Nixon, had threatened to give Rockefeller embarrassing trouble at home (adding to the circumstance that Tom Dewey and other Manhattan G.O.P. bigwigs had cold-shouldered him). Insiders reported that Rocky had all but decided to bow out before starting on his Midwestern trip, had even authorized a preliminary draft of his exit lines. Apparently the results of the trip did nothing to change his mind...