Word: deweyitis
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...Dewey had remained almost clam-silent since his defeat last year, plugging away as governor of New York. This week his hand-picked candidate for mayor of New York (Judge Jonah J. Goldstein) was slated for a decisive beating at the polls, which was not likely to enhance Tom Dewey's political prestige. Governor Dewey also had his own personal hurdle ahead: he must win re-election as governor next year. (Current gossip had Jim Farley as his Democratic opponent.) But if Tom Dewey won in 1946, he could be a strong contender for the 1948 presidential nomination...
...campaign was over before the election. The sure winner in the battle of personalities (rather than of municipal issues): 55-year-old, Erin-born Democratic and American Labor Party Candidate William O'Dwyer, onetime New York City cop, onetime Brigadier General in the U.S. Army who, like Tom Dewey, gained fame as a gang-busting district attorney...
...about one inch." Later, he confided to a gathering at a Brooklyn clinic that he dislikes horse doctors because "a horse doctor pulled my first baby tooth." Wednesday he fired a few practice shots at Candidate O'Dwyer to sharpen his eye for his shooting bee with Governor Dewey on Manhattan's station...
...Bubble Gum. Friday was his big day. In the morning the Mayor paid a surprise visit to a Manhattan traffic court, lectured and grimaced through 197 cases. At 10:30 Friday night, following Governor Dewey's dignified, half-hour endorsement of Republican-Liberal-Fusion Candidate Jonah J. Goldstein, Fiorello LaGuardia had one of his most sparkling innings. "You know," he cackled, "we prepared the studio today to hear the Governor. We put tapes on the windows, we braced ourselves, we wore lead-glass goggles, ready for the atomic bomb. And all we heard was the snap...
Elections for three new House Committee members were held at Adams House last night. The newly elected men are: Dewey G. Archambault, Jr. '48, Francis X. Murphy '47, and Bernard J. Wolfson...