Word: deweyitis
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John Bricker, who had not seen Tom Dewey for ten weeks, crossed the Cascade Mountains on a 94-speech, 9,250-mile tour, and headed south. He soothed Tacoma, Wash. Republicans who had been miffed because Dewey had bypassed their town. After Bricker spoke, the county chairman, 260-lb. Dr. Hinton D. Jonez, beamed: "The patient's wounds have been sewed and the sheets pulled up. The Republicans of this county are resting easily." Bricker gobbled a Delicious Yakima apple, steered a Puget Sound ferry, pitched the opening ball in Wenatchee for a major-league barnstormers' game...
...Christian Century came out against President Roosevelt. Dr. Charles Clayton Morrison, quiet, bespectacled editor of this liberal Protestant weekly, wrote that the basic issue was Term III. Last week, the Christian Century came out for Tom Dewey, again seeing one basic issue. The issue, said the Century, is the "comparative moral stature of the two candidates...
...Century feels that this "poison of cynicism" can be eliminated only by new leadership, thus supports Dewey, who "has already given high promise that he matches this crying need of the hour...
...Election Day, all those who now admit they are still considering a vote for Dewey should decide to give it to him, 51.1% for Dewey...
...Almost certain for Dewey, whatever happens between now and election, the Wilkes-Barre-Scranton hard-coal area (for Roosevelt...