Word: deweyitis
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...that the A.F.L. might pick up a winning margin from the challenged ballots-President Meany immediately began fighting for time to do more organizing. He protested the election, charging that it had been "conducted under circumstances of intimidation and violence by known criminals." New York's Governor Tom Dewey leaped to his side immediately by ordering an investigation of the election by state agencies. "Reports have come to me," said the governor, "of the presence of gangsters and hoodlums in the vicinity of polling places." Whatever the Labor Board's decision, it was clear that a substantial number...
...Thomas E. Dewey, a political states man . . . who has rare courage...
Adverse reaction was soon forthcoming. Dr. John A. Hannah, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, took issue with the assumption that the half-trained UMTees would be valuable in any future war. To Missouri's Representative Dewey Short, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and a longtime enemy of UMT, the idea was ridiculous. Said Short: "A lottery with dollars at stake is bad; a lottery involving control of human lives is doubly bad." For all practical purposes, House Speaker Joe Martin wrote a terse obituary for the plan. Said Martin: "I don't think the program...
...midst of his busy week, President Eisenhower found time to see his old friend Governor Thomas Dewey, who came down from New York to protest the "unprecedented interference" of the Interstate Commerce Commission with Dewey's efforts to reorganize the bankrupt Long Island Rail Road. The Pennsylvania Railroad had applied to the ICC for a 25% rate increase on the Long Island, which it owns. Dewey felt that, since the Long Island lies wholly within the State of New York, the ICC had no jurisdiction -especially no jurisdiction to raise commuter fares on the residents of two heavily Republican...
...when F.D.R. gave 50 destroyers to Britain in the early days of World War II, the P-D screamed that he had become "America's first dictator," ran its editorial in full-page ads across the country. Nevertheless, in 1940 and 1944 it supported F.D.R. again. After backing Dewey in 1948, it reversed its field last year and supported Stevenson, has been a persistent critic of the Republican Administration ever since. However, despite its editorial broken-field running, there is no turning back or sidestepping in the P-D's journalistic traditions, which are a solidly entrenched family...