Word: deweyitis
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...James) LEE RANKIN, 45, Nebraska Law School product, an old admirer of New York's Governor Tom Dewey, for whom he campaigned in Nebraska as far back...
Ufford gained the finals by defeating Dick Stewart of Trinity in the first round 16-14, 15-13, 15-3, and Yale's Bob Dewey in the semi-finals...
Thomas E. Dewey, the oracle of Owosso, for his most remarkable, double-header victory in taming the Taftites and terminating the Trumanites...
Coursing around the country in stolen cars, he kidnaped nine people, killed six of them. He threw five of his victims-Carl Mosser of Atwood, Ill., his wife and three children-down a well in Joplin. He shot the sixth. Seattle Salesman Robert Dewey, on the Southern California desert. He was caught in Mexico, returned to Oklahoma City to answer for the Mosser killings, and sentenced to 300 years in prison. But last year a California jury sentenced him to death for killing Salesman Dewey. Last week Billy Cook walked into the gas chamber at San Quentin, breathed cyanide fumes...
...same year, he predicted that Roosevelt would win over Alfred Ottinger for governor of New York by "nothing," and F.D.R. squeezed in. In 1946 he called the majority by which Ives beat Lehman in the N.Y. senate race; in 1948 he predicted the vote by which Dewey lost the state. This year he guessed that Ike would carry the nation...