Word: deweyitis
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...Dewey looked a television camera in the eye one afternoon this week and quietly set 1952 Republican presidential preliminaries spinning like a helicopter rotor. Announcing with a studied choice of words that he was out of the race for the presidency in 1952, he went on to make a bigger Page One story: Tom Dewey was for General Dwight D. Eisenhower...
...have any candidates in mind? Dewey's answer had the ring of a nominating speech...
...Dewey didn't know whether Ike was willing, he added, or even whether the general was a Republican. "I have listened to some of his speeches," said he, "and I certainly should think that his philosophy would be in accordance with...
...stepped aside in September to let Tom Dewey run again, and had been given as consolation prize the Republican nomination for U.S. Senator. At the time, Hanley had said he was "happy . . . and proud to do it." With the Korean war on, Dewey was a fitter man than he to run the state. But there had been another reason for his decision, and this week he told...
...minutes of program time, Dewey managed to answer eight questions. He announced he was against socialized medicine ("I don't want politicians taking care of me when I'm sick"), against racial restrictions in public housing, denied he had been ordered to run for office by Wall Street bankers ("the biggest lie of all time"). The most titillating question came from a Columbia University student named Barbara E. Scott. Why, she asked, did he wear a mustache? Answer: shaving hurts the Dewey upper...