Word: deweyitis
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...long before the ballots were cast, convention orators were unabashedly referring to Franklin Roosevelt as the nominee. On the opening night, Keynoter Bob Kerr, Oklahoma's pink-jowled Governor, set the theme: "with our Commander in Chief to victory." He also showed how deeply one of Tom Dewey's arguments had sunk in by roaring: "Shall we discard as a 'tired old man' 59-year-old Admiral Nimitz . . . 62-year-old Admiral Halsey . . . 64-year-old General MacArthur . . . 66-year-old Admiral King . . . 64-year-old General...
Marshall? No, Mr. Dewey, we know we are winning this war with these 'tired old men,' including the 62-year-old Roosevelt as their Commander in Chief...
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...racket is well known to New York's State and local medical societies, which pass on doctors' eligibility to treat workmen's compensation cases. But they did nothing about it until prodded by the Moreland Commission, sponsored and appointed by ex-racket-busting Governor Thomas E. Dewey...