Word: deweyitis
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...cozy luncheon at New York's executive mansion in Albany was the roundabout tipoff that Governor Thomas E. Dewey had formally conceded the defeat of his hand-picked successor, New York's Republican Senator Irving S. Ives, in last month's election. Mrs. Frances Dewey played gracious hostess to Mrs. Marie Norton Whitney Harriman, second wife of the state's Democratic Governor-elect, Railroadynast W. (for William) Averell Harriman.*A sometime interior decora tor, Marie inspected the official silver service, then looked over the mansion with a practiced eye. She allowed that "it doesn...
Lamb is not worried about his troubles with the FCC, has flatly denied any pro-Communist sympathies. A Republican "until F.D.R. came along, of course," Lamb now claims to be a political independent, campaigned for Dewey in '48 and Stevenson in '52. In his home town, the independent Toledo Blade has been grudgingly inclined to side with him: "Mr. Lamb has always seemed to us to trim his sails to suit his own advantage . . . And we will grant that one has to get up very early in the morning to get the better of him in anything...
...right-wing Republican CHICAGO TRIBUNE: The apparent defeat of Irving M. Ives in New York, even though it brings the multimillionaire social democrat Averell Harriman to the governor's chair, is no calamity, for it means the defeat of Thomas E. Dewey, the evil influence in the Republican Party for ten years. Ives was Dewey's hand-picked candidate. The foundering of the Dewey machine opens up the healthy prospect that the Pawling Machiavelli will not come to the 1956 Republican Convention with New York's 96 delegates in his pocket for the fourth time...
Hardly anyone accepted the count as final. At the order of Republican Governor Thomas E. Dewey, an around-the-clock police guard was placed over voting machines. This week, with lawyers employed by Republican and Democratic organizations carefully watching the process, the New York vote was recanvassed...
...decided to quit the Shady Hill School in Cambridge, Mass. and start a school of her own. The Bryn Mawr-trained daughter of an Omaha editor and art patron, widow (with three children) of a Chicago lawyer, Mrs. Hinton was no ordinary schoolmarm. And as a disciple of John Dewey, she intended to found no ordinary New England boarding school...