Word: deweyitis
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...presidential race cannot be separated from the startlingly close senatorial contests. Expert Hartford observers are predicting that whichever presidential candidate takes the state will carry in either Purtell or Benton with him. In 1948 Dewey took the state with but 1,000 more than Truman and Wallace combined. This year the Progressive threat is negligible, and the state is basking in the sunny prosperity given to its factories by defense contracts. Unemployment is non-existent. Furthermore, Stevenson has an appeal to the state's comparatively-high number of college graduates that Truman lacked. It's going to be tight...
...term to the beginning of Franklin Roosevelt's first (36 years), it went Republican in every presidential election except 1912. In 1932, the state switched back to the Democratic side in the presidential race, and stayed there through all of Franklin Roosevelt's era. In 1948, Tom Dewey carried it only because Henry Wallace's Progressive Party siphoned off 500,000 votes that were mostly Democratic. Dewey's margin in carrying the state: 60,000. New York now has one Democratic Senator (Lehman), and one Republican (Ives). Of the state's 45 U.S. Representatives...
This week Gallup reported on sectional polls of all voters Dwight Eisenhower is running ahead of Tom Dewey's 1948 vote, with his biggest gains west of the Mississippi and in the South. In every section outside the South, Ike is running ahead of Stevenson, even when the undecided are allocated 3-1 in favor of the Democrats. Gallup's results (after the 3-1 allocation...
Though several teams of mechanically minded surgeons have been working for years on substitute hearts, it was a group of newcomers in this kind of work who reported the latest advance. Dr. Forest Dewey Dodrill, 50, specialized in chest surgery until two years ago, when he threw himself into the heart-machine project. General Motors research engineers helped him perfect the pump. After experiments on dogs, the surgeons were ready for a human patient...
...sacristy was robbed. 94. At Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, admirers dedicated a museum to the man whose "readers" had probably had more influence on U.S. literary tastes and moral standards than any other book except the Bible: 1. John Dewey...