Word: deweyitis
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...speech was almost wholly satisfactory and convincing to GOPsters and anti-Roosevelt voters. Certainly it irritated New Dealers, who know that Candidate Roosevelt must make some really substantial answer to the long list of Dewey charges besides pointing out how badly things went under Herbert Hoover...
...Albany correspondents this week wrote "authoritative" stories saying that Dewey, if elected, would ask Cordell Hull to stay on to help him. Said Cordell Hull in careful reply: "My support and loyalty belong primarily to the Government and its present official head, President Roosevelt...
...save embarrassment, the G.O.P. strategy called for alternate introductions by the candidates. Both jockeyed for official G.O.P. favor. But the significance of this adroit move, obviously sanctioned by the high command, was not lost on North Dakotans. It was plain that Tom Dewey had ordered no more than the merest routine courtesy to Isolationist Nye, and had given Independent Lynn Stambaugh a pat on the back. This was also typical Dewey caution...
Gerald Nye's henchmen hurriedly tried to pooh-pooh this. But North Dakota is one state in which Tom Dewey needs little added help. Observers agree it is solidly Republican; the latest Gallup poll showed Tom Dewey leading...
...telegrams poured in, thousands on thousands of them: a tribute from the Red Caps of New York's Pennsylvania Station; from President Roosevelt and from Governor Thomas E. Dewey; tributes from little people, many of them signed only "A Friend." In a London pub he had visited in 1941, his photograph was draped with crepe; one of the "regulars" drank a toast to him: "We're sorry he's gone. He was a proper gent-very easy to mix with...