Word: deweyitis
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Governor Tom Dewey got a telephone call from "a nice young man" in Washington. The young man had heard that Dewey was appointing General Lucius D. Clay to run New York state's civilian defense, and that Clay was laying some plans. "He asked me," recounted Dewey last week, "to make no plans which would be inconsistent with those of the Federal Government. I said, 'Which plans?' He said they hoped to have some in September. I asked him whether he had an enforceable guarantee against attack in the meantime and he said...
...same combination of anxiety and uncertainty had driven little groups of U.S. townspeople together from Maine to California, to ponder what should be done in case of atomic attack. Few of them had either Tom Dewey's budget, General Clay, or a solicitous phone call from Washington. About the best they could do was talk it over with the police and fire departments, draw up a sheaf of diagrams, pore over what they read in the newspapers, and wait uneasily until Washington was ready to tell them what...
...atomic attack, even if Joe Stalin mailed out a week's notice. Harry Truman's National Security Resources Board had been sitting on civil defense for 17 months, had yet to hatch anything. Its new director, energetic Stuart Symington, promised action by early September. But like Tom Dewey, the U.S. was beginning to wonder if that was soon enough...
...attacking the Administration or the Congress," said Tom Dewey's even voice of Republican opposition this week. "I am desperately concerned with where we are and where we are going [because] the whole concept of human freedom is in danger of being wiped off the face of the earth...
There were voices insisting loudly that this was not enough. Snapped New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey: "It must now be clear to all that Communist imperialism does not intend to stop with Korea. [But] we find in this country politics asr usual, business as usual, and strikes as usual." He demanded immediate curtailment of all federal expenses not essential to defense, allocation of steel and other metals to military production, halting of all "luxury production" that interfered with rearming...