Word: deweyitis
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Governor Thomas E. Dewey was taken for a ride in one of Bell Aircraft's new helicopters (see cut), wondered if one might ease his commuting problem between Albany and his home in Pawling...
Edgar Bergen, who is Charlie's larynx, hopes to broadcast from each governor's mansion (NBC, Sun., 8 p.m., E.S.T.). So far two more governors have proved willing-California's Earl Warren and Illinois' Dwight Green. Not yet approached: New York's Thomas E. Dewey...
...division; Admiral Harold R. Stark, then Chief of Naval Operations; Admiral William F. Halsey, who was leading a task force toward Pearl Harbor when the Japs struck; Grace Tully, personal secretary to Franklin Roosevelt and guardian of his personal papers; Secretaries Hull, Welles and Grew and Governor Thomas E. Dewey, who in his 1944 campaign had abjured all reference to the cracking of the Jap code, on the suggestion of the U.S. Army...
Ever since California's big, blond Governor Earl Warren refused the Republican vice presidential nomination at Chicago last year, he has been suspect to many members of his own party. When he made only three speeches (one of them canned) for Tom Dewey in the campaign, suspicions deepened. And when he supported a compulsory health-insurance bill at the last session of the legislature, red-blooded GOPsters practically accused him of felonious conduct...
...Newbold Morris), hurled the name "politician" as though it were a vile epithet. He raked New York's ancient political machines from The Bronx to Brooklyn, despaired of his carefully nurtured "good government" if Morris failed at the polls. He even attempted to sell his man to Tom Dewey: "Governor Dewey. I ask you ... do the big thing . . . admit the hopelessness of Goldstein's campaign...