Word: deweyitis
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...York Democrats were acting as if Mighty Mouse had been caught stealing bubble gum. Even Tammany's politicians, delighted at having for once caught Tom Dewey in an embarrassing position, moulded their faces into expressions of self-righteous indignation...
...news has made the Republicans more vulnerable in such danger areas as Ohio, Colorado, and Missouri, Equally distressing to the GOP is the fear that the "Hanley letter" episode in New York State has suddenly given to the unknown Rep. Walter Lynch a chance to defeat Governor Thomas E. Dewey...
...leaked out, so that even Democratic headquarters had a photostatic copy? The New York Times reported that Macy had sent copies of it to friends who shared his dislike of Dewey. Presumably it then fell into Democratic hands. The incident showed a deep rift in the Republican Party in New York...
...nefarious crime," cried Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Walter Lynch, speaking as if he were full of pity for what had happened to "a broken-hearted old man." Tom Dewey, when reporters reached him, said that he was delighted that Joe Hanley had "met the facts head...
...Rally, Addams shows his full cast of professionally baleful bad characters: the gaunt, string-haired young witch who looks somewhat like a vampire on a vegetable diet; her oily-swarthy spouse who is intended by Addams, a loyal Democrat, to bear a distant resemblance to Governor Dewey; their bloated little boy, who resembles something preserved in alcohol, and a handful of useful extras, including a butler edition of Boris Karloff...