Word: deweyitis
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...main, the people had voted for no change in a social concept which had been pretty well formulated by Franklin Roosevelt in the years between 1933 and 1937. They had also voted against Republicanism. On the basis of still incomplete returns this week, Dewey in 1948 received but a scant 200,000 votes more than Herbert Hoover in 1928 (the last time the Republicans...
...Dewey had made some handsome promises. In some instances he had out-dealt the New Deal. But as Russell Davenport, who had brain-trusted Willkie's campaign, pointed out: Dewey's interest was "in the manipulation of political machinery and in saying the right thing just before it was too late...
Thomas E. Dewey: POPULAR 21,544,105 ELECTORAL...
...gates were opened and the crowd swirled around the train. Someone handed the President a copy of an early election-night edition of the Truman-hating Chicago Tribune with a banner line: DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN, and he held up the paper to the crowd, grinning...
...Deal there were always a number of Republican labor leaders to endorse their party's candidate. It is significant that this year only one president of an international union, McFetridge of the Building Service Employees, endorsed the Republican nominee. Lewis was strongly against Truman, it is true, but Dewey's Pittsburgh labor speech called forth almost equal invective. For the first time, there was no prominent labor leader, such as Mr. Hutchinson who had filled the job previously, to be the head of a Republican labor committee. The Taft-Hartley law alienated virtually all labor leadership from the Republican party...