Word: deweyitis
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Sirs: WE HAVE BEEN PRESENT AT AN EVENT WHICH TIME HAS GROSSLY MISREPRESENTED. WE ARE REFERRING TO YOUR BADLY DISTORTED, WHOLLY INACCURATE DESCRIPTION OF THE DEWEY RALLY AT THE LOS ANGELES COLISEUM (TIME, OCT. 2). IF YOU ARE CAMPAIGNING FOR ROOSEVELT, WHY DON'T YOU SAY SO. . . . WE PREFER "SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP OF A HIGH ORDER" RATHER THAN "A VETERAN VIRTUOSO PLAYING A PIECE HE HAS LOVED FOR YEARS...
...four children, some toddlers) hurrying to get there in time for the glamorous entertainment promised. Add to these the hundreds of adults who, regardless of politics, would walk miles to see a Hollywood star, and we have a crowd made up, in great part, of movie admirers, not Dewey voters. "Ginger Rogers will introduce" were magic words. Yes, it was the stars (their attendance advertised days in advance) who drew 'the crowd. . . . Without them, Dewey would have faced a half-empty Coliseum...
...Constitution . . . which forbids open comment on the possibility that a President may be succeeded by his Vice President. . . . Six Presidents . . . have died in office. . . ." By this week the rabidly anti-Roosevelt New York Daily News, which is seldom squeamish about anything, was bravely facing the facts that Tom Dewey is 42 and Franklin Roosevelt is 62. (If either were to die in office, the News added, then John Bricker is obviously a fitter successor than Harry Truman...
...prewar isolationist Bob La Follette wrote in his official party paper, The Progressive: "It is time to speak up. To speak up with an American peace program which would capture the imagination and win the hearts of people everywhere. But instead of speaking up, President Roosevelt and Governor Dewey seem to have entered into a conspiracy of silence...
Republicans turned to Thomas E. Dewey as the man likeliest to beat Term IV. Last April, the results of the Wisconsin primaries reached Willkie in an Omaha hotel room; next night he withdrew from the race...