Word: deweyitis
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...record, Dewey said simply and reassuringly that the U.S. is solidly behind "the labors of our bipartisan delegation at Paris and specifically its insistence on a prompt lifting of the blockade of Berlin." Said Dewey: "The nations of the world can rest assured that the American people are in fact united in their foreign policy and will firmly and unshakably uphold the United Nations...
...Then Dewey was off again for a week's tour of nine states in the East and Midwest. The one big issue he had not yet touched was labor. Now, in the steel capital of Pittsburgh, he took...
Newsmen had expected that he might use the occasion to discuss possible changes in the Taft-Hartley law. But with victory in the air, why should he make any more promises? "Labor has its special problems," said Dewey. "But these problems have not been solved . . . by separating labor from the rest of America." He reminded labor that Republicans had voted for the Wagner Act, voted against Harry Truman's plan to draft the railroad strikers, that both parties had supported the Taft-Hartley...
...specific promises: an increased minimum wage, broadened and increased social-security benefits, a strengthened Department of Labor, vigorous antitrust enforcement, action to "break the log jam in housing" and to halt "soaring prices." But he left labor still wondering what Taft-Hartley changes, if any, he would propose. Said Dewey: "The new law is not perfect. No law, or any other human handiwork is perfect. It can always be improved and wherever and whenever it needs change it will be changed...
...world populated by the Republican members of the 80th Congress. The G.O.P., cried Harry, wants to put all the people of the country "in one big company union and run it for the benefit of the National Association of Manufacturers." The crowd roared. He sniped at Tom Dewey's theme of unity. "We don't believe in the unity of slaves . . . or sheep," he said. In all, he was applauded 24 times during the course of his prepared, half-hour speech...