Word: deweyitis
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...DEWEY...
...Truman's Independence, a DC-6, to routine VIP service. Ike will fly instead in the plush VIP Constellation No. 8610. The decision had an ironic twist. No. 8610 is nicknamed the Dew-Drop because-according to legend-the Air Force got it ready in 1948 for Tom Dewey, the G.O.P. candidate who never...
...bill's chances for success depend on two men. One, of course, is President Eisenhower; the other is the Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Representative Dewey Short (Rep.-Mo). If Eisenhower endorses UMT as such (which is doubtful), Saltonstall expects little opposition in Congress to the bill. Short has consistently disapproved of many facets of UMT, and as House Armed Services Chairman could easily salt-tail the measure...
...told this story (at a meeting of heart specialists), Ike turned to Thomas E. Dewey, an elder statesman 28 years younger than Churchill, said: "And that certainly applies...
...Albany, Thomas E. Dewey began his eleventh year as governor of New York, the second longest tenure in the state's history. The record: 21 years (1777-95, 1801-04) served by George Clinton, first governor of the state...