Word: deweyitis
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...wrote his friend Roy Roberts in the Kansas City Star, feels that the G.O.P. must make known by its platform, but more especially by its candidate, its intention to stand firm for the bipartisan foreign policy. The candidate Eisenhower would prefer: Vandenberg. Those whom he would count safe: Dewey, Stassen, Warren. Nominees whom Eisenhower would not accept: Taft, Bricker, Joe Martin. If the G.O.P. disappointed Ike, what would he do? Wrote Roberts: "His friends believe that he will take a dramatic way to warn the country. . . How far he'll go, no one knows...
Then there were the ladies. Bustling and beribboned, Republican women were on hand in droves. Eyeing them, the New York Times's lean and waggish Meyer Berger wondered if the fate of the party might not be settled in "Coke-filled rooms." Tom Dewey's campaign workers wooed them wildly with gifts. They handed out bottles of deodorant, emery boards, silver polish, Life Savers, chocolate, chewing gum, cigarette holders, pocket combs-and brown paper sacks to carry all the boodle...
...noise and confusion. Harold Stassen got in first. His welcoming party cheered at the wrong railway car, found itself greeting Alf Landon instead. After that, the pumping of brass bands, the milling of the curious, the sound of police sirens and applause were repeated over & over as Tom Dewey, Bob Taft and Earl Warren made their entrances...
Confident Man. From Raleigh to the rim of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Dewey rolled his rig at high speed, made 13 speeches in 13 hours, all denouncing "this incredibly stupid" Truman Administration. Political observers gave him between 41 to 50 of the three states' 63 delegates- not many more than he had before, but all solidly in hand. Commented Dewey: "It is wonderful to campaign in the sunshine...
...invited to join except the Socialist Party. He was a leader of such starry-eyed, leftish setups as the League for Industrial Democracy and the League of American Writers. For one year he was editor of the Dial, a famed fortnightly magazine whose staff included Philosopher John Dewey and Economist Thorstein Veblen; later he spent eight years as an active editor of the New Republic when that magazine was a small, bright influence guided by the liberal idealism of Herbert Croly...