Word: deweyitis
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Republicans admitted glumly that the Hanley letter had cost Hanley whatever chance he had ever had to defeat Lehman, would probably cost Dewey votes but not (they hoped) the election. Said old Joe Hanley ruefully: "God knows I've said a lot of things I shouldn...
...week long, Dewey tried to soften the crushing effect of the Hanley letter (TIME, Oct. 23). There was a lot to explain away: 74-year-old, debt-ridden, half-blind Lieut. Governor Joe Hanley, "humiliated, disappointed and heartsick" because he was not going to run for governor and Tom Dewey was, had written that Dewey had made him "certain unalterable and unquestionably definite propositions" to free Hanley of debt, if he would take the Republican nomination for U.S. Senator instead...
Wall Street Sunday. Dewey, angrily defensive, said that nobody had offered to pay Hanley's debts (more than $30,000), and furthermore that there was nothing wrong if someone had. Referring to books by Democratic Bosses Flynn and Farley, Dewey made the point that when Franklin Roosevelt was asked to run for governor in 1928, "he owed a large sum of money to the Warm Springs Foundation,"* and that John J. Raskob promised to take care of it. "I just wish we had a Raskob in the Republican Party," said Dewey. Candidate Hanley betook himself down to Wall Street...
...downstate Illinois gave Dewey a majority of 167,224, saw it wiped out by a 200,836 majority for Truman from Cook County. In 1944, downstate had given Dewey a majority of 210,543, and Cook County overcame it with a Roosevelt majority...
...Dewey. 3. Truman. 5. Wallace...