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Gasping for breath, Thomas Dewey Davis, Jr., 25, of 6757 Dartmouth Avenue, Richmond, came up into the light and air again. He stood waist-deep in the electrically heated water of the tiled, floodlit baptismal pool. Above him was a stained-glass window showing Christ and John the Baptist. Next to him in the pool stood a friendly-looking, greying man-the Rev. Theodore Floyd Adams of Richmond's First Baptist Church. There was organ music, and then both the pastor and the new Christian went to change into dry clothes...
Stevenson received endorsement of 280 of 331 Democrats questioned, while 93 of 205 Republicans supported Warren and 46 preferred Thomas E. Dewey. Stevenson would get 59 cent of all votes and Warren would receive 37 per cent in a race between...
Although his first choice for the reformed office would be former New York governor Thomas E. Dewey, Braucher said he might change his choice if Party expediency required another candidate. "But it would be a cinch for the Republicans to win with an Eisenhower-Dewey ticket," he predicted...
...will get Kefauver on the ballot, by petition if necessary, unless the Senator objects himself-and I haven't heard of any objections." As they approach the Oregon primary, the Democratic hopefuls will be acutely aware that Oregon is where Harold Stassen lost the Republican nomination to Tom Dewey...
...drilled as a political reporter on the New York Times (whose editors gratuitously added a "Jr." to Jim's byline to distinguish the generations). Jim Jr. quit after eight years in the city room and Albany Bureau to become press secretary to New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey in 1943. Nine years and three presidential campaigns later, Jim Hagerty joined Ike after Eisenhower received the G.O.P. nomination...