Word: deweyitis
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Missouri's Republican Dewey Short was not impressed. "The ones who pussyfooted, sidestepped, straddled, carried water on both shoulders and compromised were left at home," he roared. "You still have a majority in both houses of Congress who voted to override the President's veto...
Incidentally, Dewey Short was not against labor, he wanted it known. He had been a worker since he was eight years old. He had sold papers, shined shoes, handled cakes of ice "bigger than I was-they slide," he declaimed. "I know what it is to look at the south end of a mule going north down a corn row all day long...
Herbert Phillips will address the Philosophy Club at 8 p.m. tonight in the Peabody Room of PBH. His subject will be Moore's "Universals," as announced two months ago. Robert E. Dewey 3G, president of the club, said that the meeting will have nothing to do with the situation at Washington, and that "the club is in no way endorsing Phillips' views...
...Salem, Ore., theater owners denounced as un-American a bill to ban pop corn & peanuts from movie houses. In Washington, the C.I.O.'s shirt-sleeved Political Action Committee moved to fancy new quarters formerly occupied by the Dewey-Warren committee...
...Publisher Dorothy Backer, in 1943. Four years later, Theodore Olin Thackrey became co-editor, and with Co-Editor Dorothy Thackrey he ran the Post Home News. But the husband & wife team didn't get along very well. During the election, when Ted was for Wallace and Dolly for Dewey, they quarreled publicly in the Post, and privately in their penthouse apartment. The argument did not end with the election, and in January Dolly Thackrey had a heart-to-heart talk with her husband...