Word: deweyitis
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Hooray for Roosevelt! Hooray for Dewey! And for Wallace, and for Willkie! And I really mean...
...hooray for Dewey for his honesty, and for his clean way of campaigning, his sportsmanship. A damn good egg. I was particullarly impressed by his damnation of Ham Fish for the slam at the Jews...
...Dewey charged that the Administration was too late with its reconversion plan, that it was afraid of the peace. Last week in Washington, on Election Day-minus-60, the planners scrambled furiously to show that Mr. Dewey was wrong. They minted a new phrase, "VE day" (Victory in Europe), for the time when Germany quits. Manpower Boss Paul V. McNutt bustled up Capitol Hill to tell a Senate committee what he will do, come V-E day. WPB's acting chairman, Julius A. Krug, was already sure of what he will...
...Illinois' able Representative Everett M. Dirksen spoke in Old Orchard Beach, Me. He too had been offered a Manhattan factory-made speech, which arrived just two hours before he was to broadcast. The speech accused Franklin Roosevelt of seeking the Presidency "under false pretenses," and said that Governor Dewey would make a speech this week "and you'd better listen to what he has to say." As Dirksen sat on the platform waiting to speak, he hurriedly crossed out the strongest sections. Two days later his speech was the subject of debate in Congress. Reason: G.O.P. Headquarters...
G.O.P. National Chairman Herbert Brownell Jr., friend and choice of Tom Dewey, pooh-poohed the series of incidents. Said he: "Merely a matter of phraseology...