Word: deweyitis
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Despite some grumbling from Republican rebels (like Oklahoma's Taft-minded Senator Ed Moore), Dewey's Midwest strength looked pretty solid. Then in Kansas City he heard the beat of an ominous drum...
Nothing could be done about the sweltering, 90° heat. But the little town of Sapulpa, Okla. (pop. 12,000) had done everything else it could to prepare for the arrival of a home-town girl-Frances Hutt Dewey. The rickety old St. James Hotel was freshly scrubbed. Waitresses and porters sweated in new uniforms; the best suite had been completely done over by a local furniture store. At the Frisco station a crowd gathered to cheer Frances and her husband. New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey...
...Dewey was entranced by Sapulpa's welcome to his wife. He was even more entranced by his own political reception. For four days last week a steady stream of visitors trooped through the St. James, bubbling with optimism. National Committeeman Lew Wentz, an old friend, predicted that most of Oklahoma's 20 convention votes would go to Dewey. Two delegates drove 300 miles from Dallas to report that they were making progress against Bob Taft's forces in Texas. An Arkansas delegation arrived, conferred, departed with the announcement: "It could be arranged for Dewey to carry...
High Gear. Thus encouraged, Tom Dewey was acting more like a candidate all the time. The whimsy that he was on a vacation had pretty well evaporated. Well covered by photographers, he dashed off autographs for a swarm, of half-clad Sapulpan moppets, who descended on the home of Mrs. Dewey's parents (see cut). Polishing up his grass-roots tactics, he stopped to admire a local farmer's improvised hay bale loader, commented knowingly that it was just what he needed on his own Pawling, N.Y. farm. By the time the Deweys moved on to Kansas City...
...letup. In Kansas City, he. breakfasted with 150 Kansas and Missouri bigwigs, lunched with 175 more, shook hands with 1,500 lesser fry at a reception in the afternoon. There was a small-hours conference with local professionals, and a dinner given by Kansas Governor Frank Carlson. Dewey admitted with a grin that he and his family "have seen more Republicans in the last five days than I ever thought I would see in my life." Answering a question about the Kansas City vote frauds (TIME, June 16), he took a swipe at Harry Truman: "It is a national story...