Word: deweyitis
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...criticized the unnecessary complexity of the laws, citing a ripe example from the present Revenue Act: "They shall not be deductible under subsection (a) but shall be deductible, if deductible under subsection (a) without regard to this subsection, under this subsection, but only to the following extent." Added Dewey dryly: "From there on it gets technical...
Then, figuratively, he took off his Commander in Chief hat and put on the old campaign hat he really loves. Tom Dewey had charged that the Administration planned to keep the boys in uniform because the New Deal is "afraid of the peace." By now, said Candidate Roosevelt, the Murray-George bill, the statements by OWM Boss Jimmy Byrnes and the War Department should have proved the falseness of this charge. "It seems a pity that reckless words, based on unauthoritative sources, should be used to mislead and weaken morale...
Immigrants All. Never mentioning Candidate Dewey, the President lashed out at the anti-Sidney Hillman campaign, in a frank bid for the foreign-born vote: "Labor baiters and bigots and some politicians use the term 'Communism' loosely and apply it to every progressive social measure and to the views of every foreign-born citizen with whom they disagree. They forget that we in the U.S. are all descended from immigrants...
Candidate Dewey opened the week with a 15-minute radio address on taxes, delivered from his desk in the dark, mid-Victorian Governor's Mansion in Albany. He had a clear opening of the kind he likes: the President's own Harry Hopkins had just announced himself a convert to free enterprise and the use of taxes to stimulate business rather than reform it (see BUSINESS). Said Governor Dewey: "The highest New Dealers at last admit that this Administration has created an impossible situation...
...Deal's lack of consistent tax policy was rich ground. Tom Dewey plowed it up & down and crosswise. After hammering again at "The Roosevelt Depression," with its 10,000,000 unemployed in 1940, he argued that a main reason was "that our present Administration never once established a policy encouraging people to do business. It never once had a stable policy that allowed people to make plans...