Word: deweyitis
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...Mind you, I have no objections to your taking sides. That is your right, and in view of your connections it is perfectly-normal that you should be in the Dewey camp. But be frank and honest about it. Do not claim to be giving your readers impartial news and then print such obvious partisan nonsense as the above quotation...
...election is as close as seems likely, the U.S. people may not know for many hours, perhaps days, possibly even weeks after Nov. 7 whether they have elected Tom Dewey or Franklin Roosevelt...
...Some of them: 1) the soldier vote; 2) migrating war workers; 3) the difficulty of poll-taking under gas rationing; 4) the "silent vote." The one new development in the FORTUNE poll was that a partial check, using a secret ballot instead of oral answers, substantially increased Dewey's vote. At week's end pollsters were busily rechecking and their final counts were yet to come. Whether the polls were right or wrong might not be known until...
...Minneapolis last week, Tom Dewey scrapped the farm speech he had gone there to make - scrapped it in order to tear apart Franklin Roosevelt's picture of the terrible foreign policy that the U.S. could expect if the Republicans won the election. What kind of peace, Dewey demanded, could the U.S. look forward to if the man in the White House was one who continually quarreled with Congress? Said Dewey...
That night Candidate Dewey addressed the U.S. and a pack-jammed Chicago Stadium audience on "Honesty in Government." He took his text from Thomas Jefferson: "The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest." As a subtext he took the lead sentence of a P.A.C. pamphlet advocating Term IV: "politics is the science of how who gets what, when and why." Dewey's speech was a straightaway attack on the veracity of Franklin Roosevelt. He recalled the WPA vote scandals, the attempt to pack the Supreme Court...