Word: deweyitis
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...Governor Dewey, who had promised to carry his fight for re-election to every street corner in the state, started out last week on the sidewalks of New York-with a new twist which allowed the whole city to look in on the process. Dewey posted himself in NBC's television studio before a screen which picked up questioners being televised on two distant street corners. At the same time, his voice and image were picked up by a studio camera and carried back to his interrogators. By switching from street corner to studio cameras in turn, NBC sent...
...results were as homey and informal as any politician could hope for. A shirt manufacturer named Harvey Rothenberg asked: "From a social and an etiquette point of view, do you think you were correct in criticizing the Russians . . . at your recent talk at the Waldorf?" Said Dewey, "It wasn't etiquette, but it was awfully good for the Russians." What did he think of the Dodgers' chances in the National League Pennant race? "They look wonderful...
Obviously Candidate Dewey had not hurt his political standing any by his social behavior. Not only had he expressed his feelings about Commies in the bluntest possible way, he had also shown that he was no man to break bread with a Red and like it. And except for the Reds and their friends, no one could work up much indignation over the governor's manners. Even the professionally proper could only cluck disapprovingly. "What he said was entirely true," said the Times, "but there is a time and place for everything...
...states were making plans, good, bad & indifferent. A handful of states had appropriated money for civilian defense. The others had blueprints, authorizations and, at the very least, good intentions. Some of them moved to unite their efforts; last week New York's Governor Dewey signed a mutual aid pact with New Jersey's Driscoll...
...York's legislature created its Civilian Defense Commission in May. It was supposed to operate on an appropriation of $100,000. To run the show, Governor Dewey had picked Lucius De Bignon Clay, the wiry, sharp-nosed, imperious West Pointer who accepted the chairmanship of the commission as a sideline to his new null job as chairman of Continental...