Word: deweyitis
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While most of the nation's governors settled down to ponder and parley after their exertions, New York's Tom Dewey wound up and tossed a bomb shell. He hardly had time to draw a deep breath after his third inaugural before he gave the state a breath-taking demand for emergency powers in case of atomic attack or invasion. Dewey wanted stand-by authority to: make law by proclamation, seize private homes and property, conscript manpower, ration raw materials and finished goods, set up constructions priorities, fire any public officer who refused to obey his order (including...
...ASKED BY DEWEY...
...last fall (TIME, Oct. 23), Republicans immediately offered the public a soothing interpretation. It was true that ailing, 74-year-old Lieut. Governor Joe Hanley had been promised the G.O.P. nomination for governor, and that he had been asked to step aside at the last minute to let Tom Dewey have it again. But the fact that old Joe had simultaneously been guaranteed a well-paying state job only proved how honest...
...cried the Republicans-including Tom Dewey-was so honest that he had contracted a vast debt of honor and had kept himself poverty-stricken for years paying it off. The intimation was plain: Dewey had not offered Hanley a political bribe to surrender the nomination; he had simply been rewarding an upstanding public servant for good works. Nevertheless, Senate investigators called on Old Joe just before the election to quiz him about the whole affair...
...August 1949, the report continued, Publisher Frank Gannett and the Bank of Manhattan had kindly lent Hanley the $28,500 which he needed to pay up the debt in full. But when he knuckled down to Dewey, his patron and another anti-Dewey Republican, Congressman W. Kingsland Macy, were not pleased. It was then that Hanley wrote Macy The Letter, a lugubrious note of apology and explanation...