Word: deweyitis
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...Dewey's own well-timed plan for U.S. mobilization came 24 hours sooner and was far bolder than Harry Truman's program...
Most Republicans were agreed, for one reason or another, that Ives had the right idea but the wrong timing. "I have been the severest critic in the country of the national Administration's policies in the Far East," said New York's Governor Tom Dewey after he came back from a Florida vacation. "But this moment is not the time for further criticism." Said Irving Ives: "I still believe that Secretary Acheson should be replaced. But... I certainly don't want to force any action that will occasion disunity...
...brought the Long Island's death list for the year to 109, as many as had been killed in all U.S. crashes on scheduled U.S. airlines in 1950. New York's newly elected Mayor Vincent Impellitteri hurried home from Cuba to order an investigation. Governor Thomas E. Dewey-who had vetoed a legislative bill aimed at weeding out railroad engineers with bad safety records-called on the bankrupt line's two court-appointed trustees to resign. They stolidly refused. A wave of vehement indignation swept New York. Newspapers baldly used the word "murder" in editorials (see PRESS...
Long Island residents prayed that a blue-ribbon investigating commission appointed by Governor Dewey (former Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, former State Supreme Court Justice Charles C. Lockwood and New York Parks Commissioner Robert Moses) would work some miracle with their transport problems. It was certainly high time...
...spell it: 'Im Pelley Terry,' so the Italians can take him for a 'Wop,' the English, so numerous in New York, for a Sassenach, and the Irish for a 'Turk.'" The colonel refused to be ruffled by the victory of international-minded Tom Dewey. It "is not a matter of remorse," said Bertie "because [Democrat Walter A.] Lynch was just as bad, and, outside of New York, Dewey is dead politically anyhow...