Word: deweyitis
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...days before George Marshall would move in as Secretary of State, the U.S. heard a concrete suggestion for a policy toward Germany. The man who made it was John Foster Dulles, adviser to Republicans, including Senator Arthur Vandenberg and Presidential Aspirant Thomas Dewey in 1944, and an alternate delegate to the U.N. General Assembly. Dulles had discussed the policy with both Dewey and Vandenberg, who concurred in his view; he had had a brief session with President Truman ("I just paid my respects"). He presented his proposition last week to 1,000 publishers and managers of U.S. magazines gathered...
...meet statewide protests, Governor Thomas E. Dewey picked a five-man committee to look into the matter, tell him what to do about it. The committee examined proposals of teachers' groups, decided that their minimums were too close to the maximums, remarked tartly, "It is questionable also whether they offer a sufficient reward for exceptional competence as contrasted with mere faithful time-serving." This week committee members brought in their own recommendations. They urged emergency raises of $300 for any of the state's 72,000 teachers who have not had that much in pay raises...
...oppose him as majority leader the G.O.P. quickly put in Indiana's Charles Halleck, who was once a Willkieite but has steadily become more conservative. Halleck's designation was a clear snub to the Taft forces in Congress, but it was not the clean-cut Dewey victory which some observers seemed to think. Tom Dewey had merely jumped on the Halleck bandwagon after it was well ahead...
Neither were Ike's denials good enough to convince skeptical Democratic and Republican politicos. Until they got a more emphatic brushoff, the professionals would lump him in with such other artful dodgers as Bob Taft, Tom Dewey and Harry Truman...
...Certainly Not." Then all ears were cocked for Tom Dewey. Last week he was busy entertaining 19 of the 28-man New York G.O.P. delegation to Congress, and taking an active part in the campaign to make Indiana's Charles Halleck the House Majority Leader. Was he ready to announce his candidacy? "Certainly not." Did that mean "certainly not ready?" Digging deep, Tom dredged up a slightly stale gag: "Certainly not-period...