Word: deweyitis
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...Minnesota, Governor Edward J. Thye, picked by Harold Stassen to carry on his administration, was campaigning vigorously for Dewey. And so were nearly all the Stassenites. When Joe Ball withdrew Stassen's name from the Chicago convention, he had said...
White House Call. Joe Ball had thought long and deeply before bolting. Also he had been wooed by the Democrats. Soon after he seconded Tom Dewey's nomination at Chicago, word went round that Ball was lukewarm. The St. Paul Pioneer Press asked him pointblank. Replied Joe Ball on Sept. 29: "Governor Dewey . . . has not yet convinced me that his own convictions . . . are so strong that he would fight vigorously for a foreign policy which will offer real hope of preventing World...
...government must be ended in the United States of America. Our Republican nominee, Governor Dewey, must win, and to that all-important and vital task the friends of Harold Stassen in Minnesota and elsewhere will give from now on everything they have...
...isolationist Chicago Tribune, which loves Tom Dewey so much because it hates Franklin Roosevelt more, last week chided its Chosen Instrument. "We think Governor Dewey made a mistake when he accepted so large a part of the Roosevelt program.... He will regret these commitments; they will not win him any votes...
...Cinemactress Mayo Methot, Bogart, who nicknamed his wife (also his yacht) "Sluggy" and bragged about their many private and public fights in six years of marriage (on their fifth anniversary, he gave Sluggy a rolling pin), kept mum about the reasons. Hollywood newshawks pointed out that Methot was for Dewey, Bogart for Roosevelt...