Word: deweyitis
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Fight for Oregon. It had been quite a campaign, its intensity far transcending the importance of Oregon's twelve convention delegates. Tom Dewey had traveled some 1,950 miles in three weeks, speaking to 100,000 people. He had talked from platforms, buses and village greens; he had signed autographs and driven a 1901 Locomobile down McMinnville's main street...
...Stassen plane landed in Minneapolis, the first returns from the Oregon primary were beginning to come in. Stassen studied them. "It looks like a trend," , he remarked worriedly. It was. At week's end there was no doubt about it. The score: Dewey, 111,657; Stassen, 102,419. There was gloom in Minneapolis. The mighty Stassen had struck...
...this week's election neared, the candidates crisscrossed the state, shaking hands, endorsing reclamation and irrigation, belaboring each other over the Communist issue, posing for pictures without number. They agreed to a full-dress debate this week. In Pendleton, Dewey got a ten-gallon hat and talked to Chief Sunset on the Mountain. In The Dalles, Dewey posed in a regulation feather headdress, last worn by Rumania's Queen Marie on a visit in the '20s. At the same town the next day, Stassen shook hands with Chief Tommy Thompson, but balked at donning his war bonnet...
...candidates' paths met at Cascade Locks, where Mayor Russel Nichols, a Dewey rooter, had arranged a turnout for his man. But Dewey arrived to find that Harold Stassen had boldly stolen his meeting. Stassen was busily autographing campaign leaflets. Newsreel cameramen, hoping for shots of the candidates together, had backed a truck across the road to make sure that Dewey would stop...
...Dewey bus approached cautiously. Then, on orders from Dewey, it squeezed through between curb and truck and zoomed on past as the disappointed crowd booed. Mayor Nichols ripped the Dewey button from his lapel and replaced it with two Stassen buttons. "This burns me up," he declaimed. "Dewey was pretty small." Gloated Stassen: "Many interesting things have happened on the old Oregon Trail." One interesting fact: the odds on the primary results had dropped from 2-1 in Stassen's favor to even money...