Word: deweyitis
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Last week, as Michigan loyally gave Tom Dewey a majority and elected a G.O.P. legislature, the voters quietly scuttled Kim Sigler in favor of a Democrat, and a virtually unknown Democrat at that. He was a tall (6 ft. 3½ in.) young (37) Detroit attorney named G. (for Gerhardt) Mennen Williams...
...fact that his 508,542 votes in New York had cost Truman the state's 47 electoral votes. If he had been on the ballot in Illinois, and had received the 48 to 64,000 votes cast for Progressive candidates for local offices, he would have given Dewey that state too. But his loud & noisy campaign had struck no roots. He had managed to convince the voters that he had only one major policy-Russia was always right, the U.S. always wrong. Obviously, the future of Gideon's army-if it had a future-was parlous...
...Louis' Betting Commissioner James J. Carroll, who had quoted odds of 10 to 1 against Truman, lost more than $100,000. His worst-beating came from the bets he covered at 50 to 1 that Dewey would get fewer than 200 electoral votes...
...Louisville, Ky., William F. Holliger, 23-year-old G.O.P. precinct captain, paid off an election bet, jumped into the Ohio River clutching a Dewey campaign picture...
...meetings in Paris, word that Tom Dewey had conceded came just as delegates were voting on the rights of non-self-governing territories. Russia's Andrei Vishinsky and the Ukraine's Dmitri Manuilsky were so startled that (until they corrected themselves) they both voted yes instead of no. "Amazing, amazing," was all Vishinsky could...