Word: deweyitis
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...friend who managed his Oregon campaign in 1948, Tom Dewey wrote a letter last week which made things as clear as anyone could wish. "Nothing has occurred or will or can occur," said Governor Dewey, "to change what I said the day after election last year. Nothing could arise now or in the future, that would lead me to be the nominee for our party in 1952 . . . My decision on this matter is as certain and final as death and the staggering New Deal taxes...
...must strike its roots in material earth . . . The noble products of civilization spring from organized and intelligently directed industry. When men lived in caves and every head of a family had to kill his own bear or go without meat, there were no Doric temples, no Trajan columns, or Dewey arches, and no poets reciting their verses of a Summer evening...
Certainly there was no question of barehanded bear killing at the New York Athletic Club, whose 2,000 members and guests that afternoon consumed 2,500 quail, 600 partridges, several hundred grouse. The chef had also reconstructed Manila-in sugar-complete with Cavite Fort and Dewey's fleet. If, later in the evening, any of the guests "recited their verses" it was not recorded...
...were to be reborn, also multiplied. 1900 expected the next 50 years to belong to the businessman, or perhaps the scientist, or the educator. After them, the New York Times might be right: the world would belong to the poets "reciting their verses of a Summer evening" beside a Dewey arch...
Charlie sat down and wrote a letter to big-fisted, fast-talking Allan B. Kline, wealthy Iowa hog breeder who had expected to become Tom Dewey's Secretary of Agriculture and whose position as Farm Bureau president made him leader of more than 1,400,000 of the richest, most influential U.S. farming families. It was only fair, the Secretary told Kline, that the federation let the Department of Agriculture explain its Brannan Plan before the delegates tried to pass judgment...