Word: deweyitis
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...want this nomination in the first place . . . but once nominated he had to accept. That Mr. Dewey put up a good fight, an efficient fight, and an honest fight cannot be denied by any one, and his salesmanship in the subject he was selling was indomitable...
...emphasize Mr. Dewey's extreme good sportsmanship upon losing in comparison with the G.O.P. nominee of '40, who although a fine man in every respect, did not pull out of defeat with the cheerful acceptance of the inevitable as has Mr. Dewey...
...think anyone should minimize TIME'S own "prediction" of the outcome of the 1944 Presidential election. You seem to have hit it on the head. On the cover of TIME for Oct. 23, 1944 you carry a picture of Thomas Dewey and in the background you have three small replicas of the White House flying away from...
...young counsel to the U.S. peace delegation, John Foster Dulles saw the failure of Versailles at first hand. As chairman of the Federal Council of Churches' Commission on a Just and Durable Peace, he campaigned hard for sane internationalism. And as foreign affairs advisor to Thomas E. Dewey he approved Dumbarton Oaks. But last week Foster Dulles, at a Presbyterian conference in Brooklyn, sounded a sharp warning. Said...
Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, the Chicago Tribune's stiff-necked America-firstish publisher, who bravely but barely contained himself during the election campaign, unburdened himself to a Montreal newsman: "Dewey was a very weak nominee ... he ran behind practically every other Republican candidate who was elected. ... If Dewey had been elected at all he would have had to run as a nationalist. . . . The New York point of view is not the national point of view. . . . The west, which created the Republican Party, must regain control of it, and then it can come back to power. ... I do not think...