Word: deweyitis
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...positive was pugnacious old Clarence Budington Kelland, the slick fictioneer who is also national committeeman from Arizona-a part of the country where dinosaur relics are still found. One day last week, Bud Kelland delivered himself of a blast. Said he: "Dewey's campaign was smug, arrogant, stupid, and supercilious ... It was a contemptuous campaign, contemptuous alike to our antagonists and to our friends. The Albany group proved themselves to be geniuses in the art of stirring up an avalanche of lethargy. No issue was stated or faced." What was needed, said Kelland, was a "housecleaning from...
...There was little doubt about the kind of housecleaning Kelland had in mind. In his eyes-and in the eyes of the G.O.P. Old Guard-Tom Dewey and Earl Warren are pseudo-New Dealers and therefore not good Republicans...
...Republican Party should become a party of conservatives, would it ever win another election? Dewey's popular vote was only a shade larger than Herbert Hoover's, despite the fact that a whole generation of voters had grown up since 1928. But in the opinion of Ohio's Bob Taft (who was vacationing in Rome), the Republicans had only to hang on. Said Taft: "[The party] should present a constructive program . . . opposing every unnecessary addition to the totalitarian powers of the federal government. The fallacies and dangers of the Administration's economic and control policies will...
Republicans v. the People. But even more decisively than they rejected Dewey, the voters had rejected the 80th Congress. Writing in the New York Herald Tribune, Russell Davenport, onetime FORTUNE editor and Willkie's 1940 campaign coordinator, declared recently: "The [Republican] party has failed to inspire the American people with confidence . . . Its failure is a failure of leadership at all levels ... But, with the sole exception of the Willkie struggle, the theme for the last 16 years has been the 'Republican Party v. the People.' And the people have won." Vermont's Senator George Aiken demanded...
...weeks ago, the seers of press and radio were dousing the American public with speculative garbage about the "Dewey cabinet." When this hypothetical group vanished on November 3, the experts shamelessly began the same sort of ponderous gossip about Truman's advisers--who was scheduled to depart, and who was sneaking up fast on the inside for such-and-such an executive position...