Word: deweyitis
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...wasn't there, and he was firmly planted at the head of the political stairs. Almost all observers were betting that Favorite Son MacArthur would win a majority of the state's 27 Republican convention delegates in this week's preferential primary. But Candidates Tom Dewey and Harold Stassen, who were very much there, tried hard to act like men who didn't care. Both of them had scoured the state in a fierce struggle for the leavings...
Candidate Dewey had hustled out from New York for a whirlwind tour. At way stations, he clambered out to address swarms of schoolkids, talked to S.R.O. audiences in small-town theaters. His target was the Administration's foreign policy: "We must not allow a weak, incompetent and wavering Administration to bungle us into war." In Milwaukee, where he posed with the leader of the oompah German band, no one missed his jab at MacArthur: "This is not a war crisis-it is a peace crisis. Military genius, no matter how excellent, is not the answer." At Eau Claire...
...Roberts-Darby group had won 13 of the state's 19 delegates to the national convention, and would doubtless force stubborn Alf Landon out as delegation chairman. It meant that Darby-who is for Dewey on the first ballot-would make the decisions of the Kansas delegation at Philadelphia in June. Roberts, who has a reasonably tough hide, used to wince at reminders of his 1936 fiasco with Landon. Now, enjoying his role as a friendly enemy of Alf's, he pushed his belly back from his desk and nodded: "Fine. Fine...
...home week for Ned Dewey and Jay Hurley as they returned to play against almost the same group they worked with last year...
...classy BLC net-minder Bill Schmidt. His mate on the close attack, Charley Gregg, showed his left handed shot to good advantage as he matched Estin with three tallies. HARVARD BLC Gregg 1.h. Weisheit Bezanson o.b. Hurley Abbot 1a Murnaghan Langer 2a Crolins Estin c Hulburd Withington 1d Dewey Snow 2d Thomas Graham pt Tinker Forsythe cp Moot Bernard g Schmidt...