Word: deweyitis
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Maryland. Anti-New Dealer Millard Tydings was expected to hold fast to his Senate seat even if a Dewey tornado sweeps the state...
...There," said Tom Dewey, "in crude, unblushing words, is the ultimate expression of New Deal politics by the theory of 'who gets what, when...
...never had an opponent who had known so well how to fight back. Herbert Hoover, flustered, had made lonesome speeches about the preservation of liberty; Alf Landon had swung wildly in all directions; Wendell Willkie, no politician, had gone on crusading for his ideals. Ex-District Attorney Tom Dewey, who had observed their mistakes, had another advantage-he had four more years of the New Deal record to throw at his opponent. In the last fortnight of the campaign he was fighting a cool, confident, hard fight, slugging it out toe to toe with the Champ. His fight-loving audiences...
Illinois. Senator Scott Lucas, a downstate New Dealer backed by Mayor Ed Kelly's machine, might squeeze through even if Illinois voted for Dewey. Opponent Richard Lyons, favorite of the Chicago Tribune and twice blessed by Tom Dewey, is splenetically anti-New Deal and isolationist...
...Jersey. Between two political unknowns, the Senate race would probably go the way the state goes (polls showed the state leaning to Dewey). The candidates: Princetonian Republican H. Alexander Smith, 64, able lawyer; Elmer Wene (rhymes with bean), 55, wealthy egg man and Hague Democrat who has yet to speak up in six years in the House...