Word: deweyitis
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...time his "Victory Special" rolled into California, Tom Dewey had observed one salient fact. At every whistle-stop and cattle crossing, the line that invariably drew loud applause was an attack on Communists in the Government, along with the remark: "I suggest you elect an administration that simply won't appoint them in the first place...
...Angeles had been picked for Dewey's all-out attack on Communism. There, in the gaudy setting of the Hollywood Bowl, a line of chorus girls danced on stage, movie stars trooped to the mike, and searchlights and floodlights made an incandescent tent over...
...Tragic Fact." Sketching the familiar pattern of Communism's march, Dewey cried: "The tragic fact is that too often our own Government . . . seems to have so far lost faith in our system of free opportunity as to encourage this Communist advance, not hinder it ... Communists and fellow travelers [have] risen to positions of trust in our Government ... On that very day when a poor distraught schoolteacher ventured death to jump to freedom . . . the head of our own Government called the exposure of Communists in our Government 'a red herring...
...Dewey train had moved through the country with leisurely assurance. The crowds were good-but no more than good-and they reflected their candidate's calm confidence. From the back platform of his car, Dewey made the same speech again & again-an appeal for unity, a promise of honest and competent government, a denunciation of those who played group against group and a criticism of the nation's "wobbling" foreign policy. He pointed out that the 80th Congress had appropriated more money for reclamation than the preceding Democratic Congress, adding invariably: "Sometimes we don't talk...
...Good Friend. In New Mexico, swarms of newly enfranchised Navajos came to see the man they call Dogi Cligin (Black Mustache). At Albuquerque, Dewey declared extravagantly: "National income is now at such high levels that we can build our military strength, reduce our debt, and still see to it that taxes are less of a burden on our people...