Word: deweyitis
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...shrilly described by New York City officials on various occasions in recent months, Governor Thomas E. Dewey is a "thwarted dictator" who, for "brazenly political" motives, imposed a "bizarre" fiscal program on the city, and then tried to "confuse the people" with "crocodile tears" and "slick half-truths." These harsh words were really beamed, not at Dewey, but at New York City's voters. A mayoralty election is due in November, and several city officials, including Mayor Vincent R. Impellitteri, are eagerly hopeful...
...shrill cries began when Mayor Impellitteri, faced with a $175 million deficit in his 1953-54 budget estimates, asked Dewey & Co. for 1) a bigger cut of state funds, 2) authority to levy more city taxes. (The state constitution requires the city to get state authorization for all new taxes and increases in old taxes.) Dewey turned down the requests, announced that he would "save the city from the catastrophic mismanagement of its own officials." Nub of Dewey's own program: let the city collect an additional $50 million in real-estate taxes, on condition that the city agree...
...that point, City Council President Rudolph Halley saw a fat political opportunity: New York straphangers are presumed to be exceedingly touchy about their 10? fare. A seasoned TV performer (Kefauver committee counsel), Halley went on TV with a plan of his own: reject the Dewey plan, balance the budget by strict economy-a hollow plan with which Politician Impellitteri had toyed. Impellitteri, without any plan of his own beyond a determination not to bring up the subject of the subway fare, denounced the scheme as "Halley's folly...
...Washington he also served as a consultant to ECA, and as foreign policy advisor to Dewey in his 1948 campaign. He edited a book of Dean Acheson's papers. In 1949, he returned to Harvard as visiting lecturer and was made an associate professor...
...first man to boom Long Islander Hall for the chairmanship was House Speaker Joe Martin, who toured the world with him in 1951. Then Governor Tom Dewey stepped in behind his fellow New Yorker, although Dewey and Hall, old friends, had recently been on opposite sides of a factional fight in New York. Hall traveled with Eisenhower during most of the campaign last fall. After a call at the White House last week, Hall smilingly said he would take the job if it were offered...