Word: deweyitis
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...assorted listener" [TIME, Oct. 4], let me tell you how this thing looks to me. Tom Dewey is running for President of Rotary International. Harry Truman is running for Mayor of Independence, Mo. Strom Thurmond is running for President of the Confederate States of America. Henry Wallace is running for President of the Soviet Union. The only man who seems to be running for national office is Earl Warren. He's running for Vice President of the United States. We've had a Vice President for the last three years. I'm running for cover. GREEN PEYTON...
While Elmo Roper and Thomas E. Dewey have assured the American people that the presidential election this year will be a mere formality, Republican chiefs are quaking in their well-polished boots over the future of the Senate. Since 1946, the GOP has held a modest 51 to 45 edge. But of the 17 Republican seats up for vote in November, no less than eight may fall to the Democrats--yet of the 14 Democratic seats, only four or five are doubtful. An over-all gain of four seats would give control of the upper house back to the Democrats...
...West Virginia, Senator Chapman Revercomb is probably closer to being a lame duck than any extant Republican. Although Dewey & Co. will be saddened to see Revercomb depart, they will undoubtedly be a bit relieved. Revercomb is roughly two miles to the right of present party leadership, and his public utterances often make even John Bricker look a little pink. Neely, his Democratic opponent, has strong labor support, including a thunderous blessing from John L. Lewis...
...race in Minnesota also looks like a Democratic victory. In spite of Dewey's chummy endorsement, Senator Joseph Ball's prospects against Hubert Humphrey are decidedly gloomy. Ever since former Governor Benson chose not to run on the Progressive ticket, Humphrey has been romping through Stassen territory well in advance of Ball, who has been observed settling slowly to the right during the past few years...
...charges on which Oppenheim was removed from office were that he "acted contrary to the club's best interest" by coming out for Dewey, and that he violated the club's constitution by appointing a temporary vice-president when the constitution says this can only be done by the executive board...