Word: deweyitis
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...Dewey's Dummies...
...Governor Dewey has launched a campaign of propaganda which may turn out to be very harmful to the fighting spirit of the American people and discouraging to our Allies. He speaks through the Congress man who implies that President Roosevelt was the Judas of Pearl Harbor, and through Governor Bricker who implies that the war was devised to provide jobs for the jobless. These are poisonous ideas that catch on easily and break down people's determination to see this war through to the bitter...
...most responsibility in the occupation of Germany. Furthermore, it might cost votes from those citizens who would prefer a more careful-and less vindictive-program for the re-education of Germany. And finally, it was of the highest political urgency that the latest Cabinet split be mended before Candidate Dewey hammered again at the "old, tired, quarrelsome" men of Washington...
...asked to comment on Candidate Dewey's statement that the New Deal "is saturated with the defeatist theory that America is past its prime." He answered that this was an awful thing to think about at 5 minutes after 11 o'clock in the morning...
...Loves the Soldiers? Tom Dewey had charged in Philadelphia (TIME, Sept. 18) that the Administration is afraid of peace, and had quoted Major General Hershey's statement, "We can keep people in the Army about as cheaply as we can create an agency for them when they are out." This was "fantastic," said Candidate Roosevelt; he had read it with "amazement." The War Department had announced a plan for speedy demobilization. "This callous and brazen falsehood was, of course, a very simple thing . . . an effort to stimulate fear among American mothers, wives and sweethearts...