Word: deweyitis
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...people of the U.S. have elected Franklin D. Roosevelt to be their President during the next four years, and history will record that the voters of America made a wise choice. Mr. Dewey started off with fine prospects but proceeded to talk himself out of any chance of winning. Mr. Roosevelt's success in winning elections is no mystery. He just sits back and lets the Republican candidate defeat himself...
...Election Issue of TIME (Nov. 13) has just arrived, and I, being a firm believer in Mr. Dewey and one among the 21-some million who believed he should have been in the White House next year, am a bit piqued that you are such a reactionary paper that you cannot print any of the news on Dewey's reaction to this campaign before and after...
...like any other carefree vacationer, he spent his mornings playing better-than-duffer's golf at Georgia's famed luxurious Sea Island. He whipped long drives across the watery 13th, cracked out iron shots with careful deliberation. As he had said he would be, Tom Dewey was "deaf, dumb and blind" to politics...
...forgotten man" of the Republican campaign, resigned suddenly as New York State G.O.P. chairman. He was obviously piqued; he announced his resignation in a terse, 21-word statement, without consulting anyone. Friends said he had been shunted aside in the campaign: he was not even invited to introduce Tom Dewey in Buffalo, as he always had before. His resignation meant that a major overhaul of New York State Republican machinery would be necessary before the gubernatorial election...
...departure of Big Ed was by no means catastrophic, but its echo would penetrate to the moss-covered oaks and tropical palms of Sea Island. Tom Dewey, staying on at Sea Island for another ten days, could be blind and dumb to politics, but he could no longer be deaf...