Word: deweyitis
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...Afraid of America." That night, in Philadelphia's cavernous Convention Hall, Dewey got down to brass tacks. In his second sentence he drove home again the fact -his favorite-that the next President will serve largely in peacetime...
...Republican crowd ate it up. Then Dewey dropped his blockbuster. The New Deal, said he, was planning to demobilize the Army very gradually after victory. And why? For his answer Dewey used a recent quotation from Major General Lewis B. Hershey, director of Selective Service: "We can keep people in the Army about as cheaply as we can create an agency for them when they...
There was momentary silence; then cheers from the crowd, who took this Hershey bumble as representing the spirit of the New Deal's demobilization policy. Dewey let the quote sink in, then repeated it for good measure...
...Roosevelt Depression. Dewey then moved on to attack the "Roosevelt Depression." He asked: "Who was President during the depression that lasted from 1933 until some time in 1940 when war orders from all over the world began to bring us full employment again...
...Dewey saved his own domestic program for a later speech. But he stated his big premise: "The New Deal really believes that we cannot have good social legislation and also good jobs for all. I believe ... we can have both. . . . We can have both opportunity and security within the framework of a free society." "No Hush-Hush Peace." Dewey en trained for Louisville, making two plat form appearances on the way, at Rich mond and Indianapolis. Neither had been advertised in advance; the crowds that turned out were small. In Louisville, Dewey rode through almost empty streets to the Brown...