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Another newcomer at guard is Nick Rodis, who played in Floyd Stahl's outfield in the spring, while Ned Dewey, one of the most promising members of last season's informal squad, will also be on hand. Jack Fisher is expected to handle much of the burden at center, although Harlow's well-known propensity to shuffie personnel on the line may result in numerous changes before the season opens...
...candidates: President Truman's popularity had dived deep from a high of 87% soon after V-J day; now only 43 of every 100 polled voters approved of the way he was doing his job. Republicans' percentage preferences for 1948: Dewey 38, Stassen 28, Bricker 9, Vandenberg 7 MlacArthur 6, Taft 4, Eisenhower 2, others...
...tumult set a yeasty, young Assistant Naval Secretary named Theodore Roosevelt in motion. Spain's best colony, he reasoned, was not in the Caribbean. It was practically under the guns of Commodore George Dewey's Pacific Fleet. Promptly, and without any authorization, Teddy Roosevelt ordered Dewey to attack the Philippines if war came. Dewey's response was an overwhelming victory. Suddenly, although nobody yet realized it, the U.S. had an empire...
...Harold Dewey Smith, for seven years the hardworking, $10,000-a-year Director of the U.S. Budget, who had kept tabs on $400,000,000,000 of Government spending, resolved to do something about his own financial dilemma...
Thomas E. Dewey nearly had a skeleton staff when a speedboat capsized on New York's Lake Mahopac. Briefly into the drink: the governor's executive secretary and the secretary to the governor's secretary...