Word: deweyitis
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...also retired Republican Representative Joseph Clark Baldwin, who had often voted with the New Deal and played a more sedate game of footy with the vociferous P.A.C. In Joe Baldwin's place they nominated State Senator Frederic R. Coudert Jr., a staunch conservative who had Governor Thomas E. Dewey's backing. In two other key New York City primaries, P.A.C.-backed candidates were also snowed under. Republicans were feeling good...
...Republican State Executive Committee had given the nod for the nomination to Lieut. General Hugh A. Drum. Longtime (44 years) professional soldier, Hugh Drum was head of the U.S. First Army until he retired in 1943, is now commander of New York's State Guard, had accompanied Tom Dewey on his 1944 campaign trip. The word from Albany seemed, in effect, to sew the nomination up for General Drum (who is Al Smith's successor as head of the Empire State Building). But it only set Bill Donovan's supporters to working harder. Next week...
...Roosevelt thought of his presidential rivals. ... He thought Hoover a solemn defeatist with no consciousness of people as human beings. Alfred Landon, Roosevelt thought, was a nice fellow who didn't know much. He took an immediate liking to Willkie, and he hadn't expected to. ... For Dewey, Roosevelt had little respect. He expected him to make a bad campaign, and was surprised when he made an excellent...
Well aware of the overcrowding of U.S. colleges, New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey had forehandedly set up three emergency colleges on abandoned Army & Navy sites to help handle the overflow.* And by last week the Associated Colleges of Upper New York had a faculty of 225 all signed up. The question was: would the faculty members have enough students to keep them busy...
...damned the Democrats as tools of the "Communist-dominated P.A.C." Then he launched into criticism of "money-mad millionaires" who "dominate the Republican Party in most of the eastern states." Eastern Republicans, he snorted, are "fertile in expedients which was shown by the nomination of Wendell Willkie and Dewey, nominations made to prevent the election of a Republican President. . . . They think they can . . . nominate another renegade Westerner by scaring us with the atom bomb...