Word: deweyitis
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...G.O.P. tax policy, Dewey then made a set of six pledges, aiming them basically at a consistent, national tax policy-directed toward achieving full employment and a rising national income. The pledges included reductions of personal and corporate income-tax rates, and a complete overhaul of the entire tax situation toward clarity, simplicity and stability...
...address, though brief, was shrewdly aimed: Candidate Dewey was picking an inviting and wide-open target; he knew that it would take an extraordinary amount of New Deal ingenuity to devise an honest and sense-making defense of eleven years of tax boggling by the White House, the Treasury, and a Democratic Congress...
Candidate Dewey then took it easy, awaiting the President's second speech. And while Mr. Roosevelt's V-1 had jarred him visibly (TIME, Oct. 2), the White House V-2 speech seemed to make Tom Dewey actually happy. He listened to Mr. Roosevelt's repudiation of Communist support, and then, with the air of a man who has held back too long, said "I shall be compelled to discuss it quite openly...
...Confidence. The Governor and Mrs. Dewey visited St. Patrick's Cathedral, where Al Smith's casket lay, then boarded the ten-car train for Charleston, W.Va. The Governor was in a confident mood. This mood the Governor carried into his speech that night. Clearly he felt that he had taken the Champ's hardest blows, and that his own steady body-punching was wearing his opponent down. The speech kept up that hammering of the Administration...
...Into it Dewey again wove the main themes and catch words of his campaign, from the base of his continual "It's time for a change...