Word: deweyitis
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Political Career: In 1931 ran for the state assembly from Manhattan's Tenth Assembly District on a strong anti-Tammany platform. Defeated. His campaign manager: an ambitious young Republican lawyer, Tom Dewey. Next year Brownell won the election, was re-elected four times; quit the assembly in 1937 to rebuild his law practice and his income...
...came back to politics in the campaign manager's role. Ran Dewey's successful 1942 campaign for governor of New York, Dewey's 1944 and 1948 Presidential campaigns. Served as chairman of the Republican National Committee (1944-46), reorganized the committee, built up a $750,000 war chest...
...deep in a chair at political conferences, thinks before he speaks, and speaks softly, briefly and to the point. Married to Doris McCarter, a onetime Texas Democrat. Likes to relax at home with his four children: Joan, 16; Anne, 14; Tom, 12 (named for a maternal grandfather, not for Dewey); Jim, 9. They live in a comfortable old house near Manhattan's Gramercy Park. In religion, a Methodist. For recreation likes dancing, baseball (a Yankee fan), and ranching vacations in Arizona...
Political Career: Entered politics in 1940, was elected to the New Hampshire house of representatives from Lincoln, a normally Democratic area, re-elected two years later. A pro-Dewey delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1944. Elected to Congress in 1944 from New Hampshire's Second District, in 1945 joined 30 House "Young Republicans" in proclaiming independence of Old Guard G.O.P. leadership; voted as an internationalist in foreign affairs, as a moderate conservative in economics and labor. Defeated for G.O.P. nomination for governor in 1946, nominated and elected in 1948 and 1950. Cut the state's administrative...
...talk of impending recession last week than there had been in months. One of the loudest talkers was Elliott V. (for Valiance) Bell, editor & publisher of Business Week and former superintendent of banks in New York state. Bell, who was considered in line for Secretary of the Treasury if Dewey had won in 1948, took note of such things as tightening money rates, weakness in commodity prices, narrowing profit margins and the approaching peak in arms spending. Said he: "Whether the boom lasts six months or two years more, the new Republican Administration will probably have to deal with...