Word: deweyitis
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...Beverly Hills Citizen came out for Dewey. Publisher of the Citizen: New Dealing Will Rogers Jr., who resigned as a Democratic Congressman to go overseas with the Army...
...conservative Harlem newspaper which in 60 years of Republicanism has only once supported a Democrat for President (Roosevelt in 1932), declared for Roosevelt. Said the Age: "Negroes have made too much progress in their fight for first-class citizenship under President Roosevelt to trust the future to Thomas E. Dewey...
...Manhattan, George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, 50, intending to vote for the first time in New York, hastened to P.S. 9, passed his literacy test, said he would vote for Dewey. Said the Babe, who played baseball 21 years: "I don't think anyone is good enough for 16 years...
...Roosevelt continued to be the betting favorite: bettors backing Dewey risked $1 to win $2.50; those backing Roosevelt risked $3 to win $1- with actual wagering light, and Roosevelt money in greater supply...
...York figures were one example of how decisive the serviceman's vote might be in a close race. Albany received some 590,000 serviceman ballot applications. (In 1940, Franklin Roosevelt's plurality in New York was 224,440; Tom Dewey lost his 1938 try at the governorship by less than...