Word: deweyitis
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...time the 1944 Presidential campaign had rolled around, G.O.P. Candidate Thomas Dewey knew what his opponent had known in December...
...Fusion Parties, grey-haired Judge Goldstein was belaboring Democrats right & left. Nightly he cried that "Tammany's tin-box boys" were fixing to loot the city. Mild-mannered Judge Goldstein had once been secretary to arch-Democrat Al Smith. He now had the backing of another Governor: Tom Dewey...
...what is fundamentally a two-party system. He would hear reports: Judge Goldstein had been put up to draw the Jewish vote away from the Democrats. . . . Bill O'Dwyer would lose Catholic votes because of his A.L.P. tie-up. . . . Actually the election was just a test of Tom Dewey's ability to get re-elected in 1946. . . . Or it was just a test of Harry Truman's strength in New York...
...famous order to the 200 detectives present: "He's the best-dressed man in this room. . . . Don't be afraid to muss 'em up. Blood should be smeared all over that velvet collar." Under Valentine (and, of course, with the help of LaGuardia and Tom Dewey) the slot-machine gangs, gambling rings, white-slavers, "popes and rabbis" (meddling politicians) were largely driven out or undercover. New Yorkers boasted, for the first time in memory, of the most honest police force in the land...
There were tears in Campbell's eyes as Governor Dewey shook his hand. Then Tom Dewey promised that he would ask the Legislature to pass a special act "liberally" compensating Campbell for his wrongful imprisonment. It was all very efficient and complete. Only one thing was lacking: no one said: "I'm sorry...