Word: deweyitis
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...Toft & Harold Stassen turned up again on the same platform, this time in Columbus, Ohio. Again they exchanged expressions of esteem. Cracked a newsman: "They're not such strange bedfellows-they both have nightmares about Dewey...
...Dewey is heard...
Most of you have already read TIME'S accounts of the recent tours of New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey and Ohio's Robert A. Taft. Our correspondents who accompanied them were Robert Elson, chief of Time Inc.'s Washington bureau, and Win Booth, who ordinarily covers the White House. By comparison with the usual grand tours of Presidential nominees after the Republican and Democratic conventions, these tours were in the nature of family excursions. Nevertheless, says Elson, who went along with the Taft party, "Booth and I got closer to the men, their families...
...small towns the arrival of such national personages as Taft and Dewey was usually the signal for the biggest local political jamboree in months-Western politicians thinking nothing of driving 500 miles or more to talk politics with one of the leaders of their party. Moreover, Elson and Booth found, they were as interested in interviewing the correspondents as the correspondents were in interviewing them. At a luncheon in Tacoma, Washington, Elson was approached by a delegation of local radiomen, on hand to welcome him. They were under the misapprehension that he was another Bob Elson (no relation), national network...
Color was added to the practice by the presence of civilian-clothed Ed Davis and Ned Dewey, who held down the tackle slots on last year's Harlow eleven...