Word: deweyitis
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...Little Toehold. Then the bored Connally perked up. The Republicans' Harold Stassen appeared, to damn the Wherry resolution and coolly out-badger fuming and contentious Senator Kenneth Wherry. And the next day Thomas E. Dewey, in his first appearance before a congressional committee, dealt his isolationist colleagues one of the most demolishing forensic blows they had yet received...
Meet the Press (Sun. 4 p.m., NBC). Governor Thomas E. Dewey...
Last year's top man, Harry Truman, ran third. Next in order: Winston Churchill, Herbert Hoover, Senator Robert A. Taft, Bernard Baruch, Pope Pius XII, Dr. Ralph Bunche, Thomas E. Dewey. In Manhattan, the Associated American Artists offered "one of tomorrow's most treasured heirlooms . . . worthy of an honored place in your home or office": ten-inch, bronze-colored reproductions of Sculptor Jo Davidson's bust of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Price...
...radiation detected in New York is thought to have been a result of tests currently being carried on by the Atomic Energy Commission in Nevada. Governor Thomas Dewey, when informed of the discovery, promised a full investigation...
...planning no short-term plans. When a Congressman questioned the low ($30 a month) pay proposed for a draftee during basic training, Marshall said: "I was thinking of the taxpayer. I want an enduring system, not one that's going to collapse of high cost." Missouri's Dewey Short, a man constitutionally opposed to universal military training, complained that the merger of the draft with U.M.T. looked like "a shotgun wedding" to him. "I did that," said George Marshall. "I'm glad you've the courage to admit it," said Short. Retorted a coldly indignant George...