Word: deweyitis
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...Democracy, the Young Progressives, the Young Republican Club organized outside of the League for Democracy, and in the fall of that year the SDA pulled out of the League, taking with it the majority of the membership. The Young Progressives and the AYD endorsed Wallace for president, the Republicans Dewey and the SDA supported...
Governor Thomas Edmund Dewey, something less than a success as a national campaigner, last week showed that he still knew a thing or two about the practical politics of handling a legislature...
...Dewey desperately wanted a rent-control law that would operate whether or not federal controls were extended. Such a bill would also be a fine vote getter for Dewey-and so all the Democrats, under orders from State Chairman Paul Fitzpatrick, refused to vote for a rent bill Dewey could take credit for. Three of his own Republicans in the senate were also against it. That left Dewey one vote short...
...Dewey turned the matter over to his senate leader, brisk, pugnacious Art Wicks. Then, taking a leaf from Harry Truman's successful book, Dewey proclaimed that the people of New York were going to have rent control even if he had to call a special session...
...Connell delivered. To the astonishment of his fellow Democrats, Peter J. Dalessandro of Albany County, 28, the youngest man in the senate, abruptly announced that he was going to vote for Dewey's bill after all. The state needed rent control, and the G.O.P. bill was the only one with a chance of passage, he explained. Ex-Sergeant Dalessandro had won the Congressional Medal of Honor when, his outpost surrounded by Germans, he ordered his company's mortar battery: "O.K., let me have it-right on this position." Last week he was getting it again from outraged Democrats...