Word: deweyitis
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...puzzlement was not without some justification. It was generally known that several other prominent jurists, lawyers, and men of affairs were being considered by the President to fill the seat on the High Court being vacated by Sherman Minton. Among them were Thomas E. Dewey, Chief Justice Vanderbilt of the New Jersey Supreme Court, and Herbert Brownell. But Eisenhower finally selected a relatively unknown and young (fifty years) justice from New Jersey...
Javits went back: he was re-elected three times, and by 1954 had clearly earned the dubious right to run against Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. for attorney general of New York. Some New York Republican leaders were reluctant to accept Javits because of his liberal record. Finally Tom Dewey arose at a party caucus that lasted until 4 a.m. "Who else," demanded Dewey, "have we got?" Javits not only ran against F.D.R. Jr., but he walloped him by 170,000 votes and was the only Republican on the state ticket to breast the Democratic tide. Manhattan's Javits...
...Utah's bumptious J. Bracken Lee was unexpectedly-and unceremoniously-trounced in last week's bitter Republican primary. So weary were Utah's Republicans of Lee that they chose instead-by a vote of 62,294 to 54,282-a newcomer to politics, egg-bald George Dewey Clyde, 58, whose only political recommendation was that, as commissioner of the Utah Water and Power Board, he campaigned hard and successfully for passage of the popular Upper Colorado River bill (TIME, Feb. 12 et ante...
...Secret. George Marshall had learned that Dewey knew the U.S. was cracking Japan's code. He feared that Candidate Dewe)7 might accuse the Roosevelt Administration of having blundered into Pearl Harbor even while intercepting messages spelling out the Japanese intention to attack. Marshall was not so much concerned about the political implications as he was about the military dangers: the fact that the U.S. had cracked the Japanese code was a zealously guarded military secret. Marshall begged Dewey to keep quiet about the code, and offered a weekly briefing on top U.S. diplomatic and military secrets...
Acting on his own, without President Roosevelt's knowledge. George Marshall established a custom that is now an accepted practice in presidential years, though never since has the briefing of the rival candidate been so important. In peacetime 1948, the recipient was again Tom Dewey. In 1952, both Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson were briefed regularly. In the case of Eisenhower, who had resigned as Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, the previous June to campaign for the presidency, the material was of slight value. Explained Ike last week: "I was in the middle of the military organization that had access...