Word: deweyitis
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...Pennsylvania's burly Jim Duff, and it had sent an ancient opponent, Missouri's Forrest Donnell, to the showers. In high Republican councils, Bob Taft's show-me internationalism was more than outbalanced by the sizable majorities of the two international-minded coastal governors, Tom Dewey and Earl Warren...
...Governor Thomas E. Dewey: ". . . We had a landslide, and that I say is notice by the people of New York that we want the right to develop our waterpower at the St. Lawrence and Niagara Rivers...
...Hanley's famed, indiscreet letter came home to roost last week. Republican Congressman W. Kingsland ("Dear King") Macy, to whom it was written, had spread copies of it around, in hopes that it would embarrass Tom Dewey (TIME, Oct. 23). It didn't; it was King Macy who got hurt. When the final count was in, Macy had been beaten, by 126 votes, by Democrat-Liberal Ernest Greenwood, a retired schoolteacher. Macy, running for his third term in the House, angrily demanded a recount. It was the first time in 36 years that the district had failed...
Would the appointment have any effect on Ike Eisenhower's plans for 1952? The man whom Tom Dewey had named as his candidate for the Republican presidential nomination flushed bright pink...
...Hanley will need the job he talks about in the letter--" (if I lose) I have an ironclad, unbreakable arrangement whereby I will be given a job with the state." Lehman, the incumbent, soundly beat John Foster Dulles last year to win the Senate post and also won over Dewey in 1938, when the latter first tried for the governorship. In an uncertain year, Lehman's election is as definite as anything...