Word: deweyitis
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Lyons' Atlantic Monthly article, "Libeling Our Colleges," attacked Griffin's charges of "red" and "foreign" influences at Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Lyons also attacked the Tribune's journalistic standards, pointing to its election night "Dewey Wins" headline...
...moment of exuberance, Harry Truman declared that his biggest asset was his opponent, Tom Dewey, who had cried at Louisville, "Don't worry about me." The voters didn...
...Franklin Roosevelt received 432 electoral votes and Thomas E. Dewey 99. Under the Lodge-Gossett system, Roosevelt would have gotten 300,726, Dewey...
Under the Lodge-Gossett system, the electoral vote for 1948 would have been divided thus: Truman, 258.098; Dewey, 221.464; Thurmond, 38.769; and Wallace (who received no electoral vote under the present system), 9.987.† To most citizens, it seemed that some such accurate reflection of the popular vote was long overdue...
...Junior Prom King, instead of Harry Truman. Before the November elections, Bob LaFollette, 22-year-old grandson of "Old Bob," made speeches for MacArthur; there were about a dozen avowed campus Marxists, and even one Dixiecrat. A Daily Cardinal poll showed students about evenly split between Truman and Dewey; they were also vaguely internationalist, and convinced that Russia would have to be stopped. The Cardinal, though, seemed more exercised by such issues as racial discrimination at the University Boat House and whether or not Harry Stuhldreher should have been replaced as football coach...