Word: deweyitis
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...Assassination." The last seven days spewed forth a spate of name-calling rancor. Sidney Hillman said that a Dewey victory would be a "national catastrophe"; John Bricker charged that Communists now control the Democratic party. The New York Daily News thought it "fair to surmise that [Roosevelt] is even now hoping to have one of his sons succeed him as King of the United States...
...attracting such independent Republicans as Russell Davenport, such New Dealers as Leon Henderson, polled 319,085 votes (nearly all in New York City) for Roosevelt. Hillman's A.L.P. polled 483,371. These two totals, added to the Democrats' 2,461,771, were enough to beat Tom Dewey's 2,952,867 straight G.O.P. vote in crucial New York State...
...Russians, in their lushest cloak-&-dagger manner, who added a touch of comic melodrama to the last days of the campaign. Izvestia, official Soviet Government newspaper, ran an article headlined: THE ELECTION OF ROOSEVELT GUARANTEED. It is said that the core of Dewey's Republican staff had "pro-Fascist, pro-German ties"; and that with campaign "failure imminent . . . Republicans in despair might resort to a big adventure." The "adventure," it said, might well be a fake last-minute assassination plot against Dewey, with the Communists, of course, blamed for it. Thundered Izvestia: "History includes a number of such insolent...
...Dewey packed 20,000 into the Boston Garden. He charged: "Mr. Roosevelt, to perpetuate himself in office for 16 years, has put his party on the auction block-for sale to the highest bidder...
...highest bidders, he said, were Sidney Hillman's P.A.C. and Earl Browder's Communists. He distinguished between the American Communists and "our fighting ally, Russia." Tom Dewey charged that "Mr. Roosevelt has so weakened and corrupted the Democratic Party that it is subject to capture, and the forces of Communism are, in fact, now capturing...