Word: deweyitis
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...state authority, aided by federal funds for flood control. A bill to allow the Alabama Power Co. to build dams on the Coosa River, sponsored by Democratic Senators Lister Hill and John Sparkman, was recently passed by Congress (TIME, June 28). On the other hand, Republican Tom Dewey wants new plants at Niagara Falls to be built by the state, whereas Congress and the Administration favor private company development...
...Olympia, Dewey's flagship, and U.S.S...
Governor Thomas E. Dewey last week formally opened the first section of what will be the longest, best-planned and most remarkable toll road in America, the New York Thruway. At a banquet in Rochester, Dewey pressed a button that opened turnpike exchanges on the 115-mile stretch from West Henrietta, near Rochester, to Lowell, near Utica. For New York, the Thruway may be the most important achievement of its kind since De Witt Clinton in 1825 opened the Erie Canal and gave the state the jump on its neighbors. The aorta of commerce, the canal made the state great...
...Some New York State G.O.P. officials squirmed when Governor Dewey's investigation revealed they had made fantastic profits from the racket-ridden...
...those New York Democrats who feel that Junior is just plain poison. But, as of last week, the chances were that in November young Roosevelt would be the candidate, running against the man his father beat for the presidency: New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey...