Word: deweyitis
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...Ohio, hedgehopped into Kentucky and then flew in to Cincinnati, he worked these themes hard. In Michigan, in heavily industrial (and heavily unionized) Flint, nobody seemed to care much. Some 3,500 turned out to hear him call Nixon "shifty," "rash" and "inexperienced," a "man of many masks." (Tom Dewey had drawn 5,000 the night before.) The crowd in the one-third empty auditorium responded politely: although the words were harsh, Stevenson's manner was courteous...
...this precinct's major-party vote went to President Truman 52.5 per cent, to Thomas E. Dewey's 47.5 per cent. The national major-party vote gave Truman 52.4 per cent and Dewey...
University returns of past years have been characterized by a Republican regularity that occasionally transcends national trends and CRIMSON editorial support for other candidates. In 1948, when the CRIMSON was one of President Truman's few vocal journalistic supporters, the College voted heavily for Dewey by 1013 to Truman's 508, Thomas' 151, and Wallace's 133. No poll was conducted by the CRIMSON in 1944, when the paper was a service organ...
...first job building sewers and water mains in Buffalo, soon after formed his own firm contracting for municipal water systems, dams and sewage-disposal projects in upstate New York. In 1945, when New York embarked on an $800 million public-works program. Governor Thomas E. Dewey asked him to become deputy superintendent of public works in charge of coordinating all the various highway and building projects, quickly moved him up to superintendent of public works and in 1950 put him in charge of the New York State Thruway project...
...DEWEY SPIES San Mateo, Calif...