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Finally, Missouri's Representative Dewey Short, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, dispelled any mystery. Radford had talked blockade to the committee, said Short, and without recommending a course of action had given the opinion that blockade of China's coastline was feasible. "Like all military people in the Far East," said Short, "he didn't think a blockade would result in any grave danger of enlarging the war." Short said that Eisenhower was "listening" to Radford's reports, added that Congress would support a blockade order...
...Send For. Ever since 1941, important Republicans have been sending for Herbert Brownell when they had a big job to do. That year, Tom Dewey got him to manage Edgar Nathan's successful campaign for president of the Borough of Manhattan. In 1942, he managed Dewey's winning campaign for governor, and then turned down a job in the state cabinet because he wanted to go on practicing law. Says he: "For me, politics was winning elections, not getting political jobs...
...Brownell was key man in Dewey's preconvention and post-convention campaigns to be President of the U.S. Although Bob Taft's forces pushed him out of the national chairman's job in 1946, he was able to engineer Dewey's nomination in 1948, and again was the G.O.P. campaign manager. He had gained national renown as a political expert by then, but the election fooled him as much as it did anyone. As late as 1 :45 a.m. on Nov. 3, 1948, he was still insisting that Dewey would...
...Brownell helped lay out the general campaign plans, then packed his bags and headed for his Manhattan law office. He could have been campaign manager, but he knew that the big black "D" on his old sweaters would antagonize the Midwestern Taftites, even though he was no longer Dewey...
Candidate by Default. Not long after he came to New York, Brownell joined the Republican club in the old Tenth Assembly District (now the First). In 1931, Brownell was the Republican candidate for the legislature, and his campaign manager was another young lawyer out of the Midwest, Thomas Edmund Dewey, sometime of Owosso, Mich. Brownell lost. Next year Brownell won, the only New York City Republican that year to succeed a Democrat...