Word: deweyitis
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...Stevenson victory is a reversion to the previous Radcliffe political trend after the 1948 sharp turn-about when the Annex went strongly Republican and cast 281 votes for Thomas E. Dewey to 61 for President Truman. In 1944, 1940, and 1936, Radcliffe students supported Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and the Democratic party...
...Yale student body has been strongly Republican in every presidential election since 1932. Four years ago, Governor Thomas R. Dewey received a similar margin over President Truman...
...Harvard Young Democratic Club has had a rather unhappy history. In 1948, for example, club members, after endorsing the Democratic slate, discovered that their president was a rabid Dewey supporter. Only after much bitterness and counter-charging was the Deweyite impeached. The HYDC quietly died following election day, and remained buried until last spring when some Democrats resurrected...
...Annex followed Harvard and went Republican, picking Dewey by over four...
...Louis Post-Dispatch, which supported Tom Dewey in 1948, announced it was backing Governor Stevenson...