Word: deweyitis
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...track events, spring veteran Bailee Reed should get strong backing from junior Austin O'Connor, with Vandepool Wallace another possible contender. The hurdlers will be led by Dewey Hickman, with Ed Cole and football halfback Steve Dart providing support. Co-captain Clayton and Nick Leone are tops...
...Maine?are liberals. Haskell, 56, a tax lawyer, is a former Republican who turned Democrat two years ago in protest over Administration policies culminating in the U.S. movement into Cambodia. New Republican Senators-elect are mostly staunch conservatives: James A. McClure in Idaho, Jesse Helms in North Carolina, Dewey Bartlett in Oklahoma and William L. Scott in Virginia...
...Sooner State rewarded an old friend, giving Nixon its eight electoral votes with about 58 per cent of the popular vote. Nixon's showing helped GOP nominee Dewey Bartlett in the sensational race, where he bested Democrat Edward Edmondson with 55 per cent of the tally...
...Press moved to NBC television in 1947 and, with its Sunday broadcasts, quickly became a prime supplier of Monday morning headlines. Americans got their first official word of the Russian atomic bomb from an inadvertent remark made by General Walter Bedell Smith on a 1949 program. Thomas E. Dewey used the show in 1950 to eliminate himself from the presidential race and to tout Dwight Eisenhower as the 1952 Republican nominee. John F. Kennedy made his debut on MTP in 1951 as a young, relatively obscure Congressman. "We were looking for fresh faces," Spivak recalls. "He was exactly right...
Bixby was once a staffer for Thomas Dewey, the classic victim of political overconfidence, and Bixby says that he "vividly remembers" the last-minute rehersals of the 1948 election. So he is trying to whip his Republican team into a frenzy before the big game...