Word: deweyitis
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...listen to the radio. What had he heard? Harry Truman lapsed into his famous mimicry of Radio Commentator H. V. Kaltenborn. For four years Truman has regaled his friends with his imitation of Kaltenborn's broadcast on election night, 1948, when Kaltenborn was stubbornly insisting that Tom Dewey was winning. Now the President's zip was undiminished as he mimicked the 1952 Kaltenborn hailing an Eisenhower victory. Only this time, said Harry Truman with a wry grin, the old boy turned out to be right...
...SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: 1) Dewey; 2) Massachusetts' Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. Ike is hoping to find a top-level businessman for this...
...POSTMASTER GENERAL: 1) G.O.P. National Chairman Arthur Summerfield; 2) Senator Fred A. Seaton, Hastings (Neb.) newspaper publisher and one of Eisenhower's campaign advisers; 3) Herbert Brownell, New York lawyer who is Dewey's able political strategist...
...flopped resoundingly back to the G.O.P. Example: in 1948 Truman carried seven rich farm counties in southern Minnesota. This time Ike got them all. Pocahontas County, in northwestern Iowa, is a cash grain area which has been Democratic since 1928. Ike got 64%. Indiana's Hamilton County gave Dewey 63% of its vote in 1948; it gave...
Armed Services. Missouri's Dewey Short, a widely educated hillbilly (Harvard, Heidelberg, Oxford) who has a fund of good stories, a long record of eccentric voting, especially on military affairs, and hardly a friend in the Defense Department...