Word: deweyitis
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...White House conference. In the Cabinet room he found the same gathering of congressional leaders and Cabinet members who had listened to the President's statement early in the week. They waited for 20 minutes before Harry Truman came in, took a seat next to fellow Missourian Dewey Short, and asked General Bradley to recite the bad news from Korea. When Bradley had finished, the President slowly read off the text of his decision to throw U.S. troops into the battle, to allow the Air Force to bomb "specific military targets" in Communist North Korea, and to order...
...nearly everybody else last week as governors of 43 states and two territories gathered for the 42nd annual Governors' Conference. Tom Dewey, usually the star of the show, was all but ignored now that he had decided to take a breather from politics. Both Warren and Duff had just scored thumping primary victories in two of the nation's biggest states. At press conferences, Warren was relaxed and expansive. Duff, in what his personal publicity men warned him was his first appearance on the "big time," was nervous at first, clasping and unclasping his big, brown-freckled hands...
...Governors' Conference most useful of all was Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Acheson brought down his-traveling road show, comprising Ambassador at Large Philip Jessup, Republican Special Adviser John Sherman Cooper, and young (35) Carlisle Humelsine, State's administrative troubleshooter. Acheson spent nearly an hour talking with Dewey in his private cottage, convivially sipped drinks with Warren...
...muera González! (Long Live Rodríguez! Death to González!). The Gonzalistas, in turn, announce that when they get into power they will hang the Rodriguistas. Imagine an election campaign conducted in the U.S. or England in such terms! Imagine placards crying 'Death to Dewey!' and 'We are going to hang Truman...
...York State Employees' Retirement System reported that because Governor Thomas E. Dewey is too young (48) and his period of public service (18 years) too short, he will not be eligible for a pension when he retires...