Word: deweyitis
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...last in a field of four), Harry Truman threw a chicken dinner at the White House for all living ex-chairmen of the Democratic Party. Jim Farley could not make it; he was en route to Europe. Neither could John J. Raskob, who had already predicted victory for Tom Dewey. But such oldtimers as Ohio's George White, who managed the unsuccessful Cox-Roosevelt campaign of 1920, and ex-Attorney General Homer Cummings arrived to assure the President that Democratic fortunes were looking...
...they refused to consider price control or rationing as inflation remedies, gleefully repeated the President's observation of ten months ago that "these are marks of a police state." Their answer to a request for an excess profits tax was a brusque no. Despite Candidate Tom Dewey's personal intervention, they refused to liberalize the provisions of the Displaced Persons bill. The one unarguable gain of the week was approval of the $65 million loan for building U.N.'s Manhattan headquarters...
...Natural. In Arlington, Va., local Republicans chose a new campaign manager, Warren Dewey...
Congress went through the motions of considering the President's special-session message-but the motions were perfunctory. Seven hours after Harry Truman had left Capitol Hill, congressional Republicans flatly announced-with the approval of Candidate Tom Dewey-that "our efforts will be devoted to completing the session as soon as possible...
...G.O.P. convention ended-without indicating what uniyersity he represented. He found Stassen receptive. A week later Penn offered him the presidency. Last week, "after careful consideration," Harold Stassen accepted. He would report for duty next fall, he promised-if he had finished his speaking tour "on behalf of Governor Dewey...