Word: deweyitis
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...Dewey got his carefully planned campaign off to a careful start last week. Everything ticked with the precision of a metronome. From Pawling to Pittsburgh to Springfield, Ill., to St. Louis and back, the schedule rolled efficiently through, each part of the whole falling trimly into place, on time...
...Conferred at Albany with Running Mate John Bricker. To newsmen, who tried to exploit the pre-convention gap between the two governors' international philosophies, Dewey answered crisply: "We found ourselves in disagreement on nothing...
...Denounced Congressman Ham Fish for antiSemitism. Fish, campaigning for reelection in New York's agth District, had said that Jews favor the New Deal. Said Dewey: "Anyone who injects a racial or religious issue into a political campaign is guilty of a disgraceful, un-American act." Fish, also denounced in newspaper ads signed by such intellectual constituents as Playwright Maxwell Anderson, threatened a $250,000 libel suit against Anderson. Wendell Willkie offered to defend Anderson free...
...Thomas E. Dewey and Mrs. John W. Bricker spent a homey afternoon talking to reporters at New York's Executive Mansion while their husbands talked campaign strategy (see U.S. AT WAR). They talked of the Dewey children, and Mrs. Bricker remarked on how nicely they "melted out of the room." Said Mrs. Dewey: "Oh, you're just being guestly, but it's very sweet of you." When the conversation got round to hobbies, Mrs. Bricker admitted that she collected early American glassware, but Mrs. Dewey said she had dropped her hobby: "When I was very young...
...bounced the U.S. over the rubber hump is chubby, puckish-looking Bradley Dewey, 67, who announced his resignation last week on the plea that his job was done. (After a short vacation in September, he will resume the presidency of Dewey & Almy Chemical Co., Cambridge, Mass.) When he succeeded able Bill Jeffers as Rubber Boss nearly a year ago, the groundwork had been laid, but synthetic plants were making about a third of what they are now. Dewey, a hardboiled, thorough man, bulled through plant construction and speeded up the synthetic program. To help him, Rubber Boss Dewey...