Word: deweyitis
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Being governor of a state in wartime is unspectacular. Revenues roll in, expenditures are down, job hunters scarce. Nevertheless, Tom Dewey had played his unspectacular part efficiently and well. He had surrounded himself with as able a team of top assistants as had ever been seen in Albany...
...weeks Tom Dewey remained secluded in his air-conditioned office in the New York capitol, or at his 486-acre farm at Pawling. When photographers descended on Pawling, they got none of the usual phony campaign pictures. Instead, the U.S. soon saw photographs of a well-groomed gentleman farmer, standing by his barn or leaning on a fence...
...Dewey had been well-known to the U.S. for seven years. His fame as the fearless young prosecutor was secure: millions had read of him as the very model of the modern District Attorney marshaling the forces of right against the hordes of evil. This year they learned more of the details of his rapid success story, from small-town editor's son to governor of the biggest state...
...nation's second biggest job Tom Dewey had made an exemplary record...
When the campaign began, the polls showed Dewey trailing far behind. At Philadelphia, in his first speech, he made some boggles. But his voice was good-so good that gagsters referred to him as "Lowell Thomas E. Dewey," a shaft aimed at the coaching received from Radio Commentator Lowell Thomas, a Pawling neighbor...