Word: deweyitis
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There was a ripple of laughter when Rhode Island's usually glib Senator Theodore Francis Green got his history mixed, gave Colorado's six ballots mistakenly to Roosevelt & Truman instead of to Dewey & Bricker. But with that little mixup over, the scene went on sedately to Wallace's final formal announcement of a fact already known to the entire world. Now at last it was official: Roosevelt & Truman had received 432 electoral votes, Dewey & Bricker...
...elections." Last week in Washington, appearing before the committee at his own request, big, grave Dr. George H. Gallup set out to answer them. He admitted that early in the campaign he had adjusted his prediction of the Presidential returns in a way that seemed to favor Tom Dewey, deducting 2% from the Roosevelt plurality actually indicated by the polls. His explanation: he had expected a light vote, which would presumably have benefited the G.O.P. candidate...
...beetling black brows and thundered: "I had hoped to be Chairman Of the Rules Committee. . . . I am opposed to Naziism . . . but there is one thing worse-and that is the bloody hand of Communism. . . . It took most of the New Deal Administration, half of Moscow, $400,000, and Governor Dewey to defeat...
Columnist David Lawrence, who wanted a Dewey victory, got to thinking last week what it would have brought. People would be saying, he decided, that as a result of the Administration's defeat, the following things have happened: the war has slowed down and casualties have gone up sharply; disunity has broken out among the Big Three; confusion reigns in Italy; civil war rages in Greece; Congress is feuding with the White House...
Concluded Pundit Lawrence: "If Governor Dewey is given at all to soliloquy . . . he must inevitably come to the conclusion that he is, indeed, a lucky...