Word: deweyitis
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Bundy, who worked on Gov. Thomas E. Dewey's foreign policy speeches in 1948, is now supporting Gen. Eisenhower. Beer, political action director of the Massachusetts Chapter of Americans for Democratic Action, will speak for Gov. Stevenson...
...Korean war ranks well above farm policy as an issue. Said a downstate Republican last week: "In the rural areas, just one boy killed or injured out of a church congregation will stagger the whole congregation." Downstate farmers will give Ike more than the lackluster support they gave Dewey in 1948, but many of them still feel that the general has been too "gentlemanly" and has not pounded hard enough at "the blunders that led to Korea...
Illinois is the one state where Stevenson does not have to buck the fact that he is, compared to Ike, almost unknown. In Illinois he is a far stronger candidate than Truman was. But then in Illinois Ike is a far stronger candidate than Dewey was. While there are no signs of large defections from Democratic ranks, Republicans point out that large defections are not necessary for Eisenhower to carry the state. A shift to the Republicans of five 1948 Truman voters in every thousand would put Illinois in the Republican column...
Background: In all but four presidential elections since 1860 Pennsylvania has voted Republican. In 1912 it switched to Teddy Roosevelt and the Bull Moosers, in 1936, 1940 and 1944 to Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal. In 1948 it gave Tom Dewey an edge of 150,000 votes (out of 3,735,000) and is now, by surface indications, once more a G.O.P. state. Its governor and both its U.S. Senators are Republican and so are 20 of its 33 Congressmen. Nevertheless, Pennsylvania must be wooed to be won by Eisenhower...
...Ferber, Librettist-Producer Oscar Hammerstein II, Producer Irene Selznick. Two big Southern newspapers announced their choice. The Atlanta Journal, the South's largest daily (which has never supported a Republican for President), came out for Stevenson. The Charlotte News, largest evening paper in the Carolinas (which supported Tom Dewey in 1948), announced for Ike. In Baltimore, the Afro-American, the nation's largest Negro weekly (which supported the Republican nominee in 1940, '44 and '48), endorsed Stevenson.* ¶Lewis W. Douglas, who served as U.S. budget director under Franklin Roosevelt and as Ambassador to Great Britain...