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...Dewey had remained almost clam-silent since his defeat last year, plugging away as governor of New York. This week his hand-picked candidate for mayor of New York (Judge Jonah J. Goldstein) was slated for a decisive beating at the polls, which was not likely to enhance Tom Dewey's political prestige. Governor Dewey also had his own personal hurdle ahead: he must win re-election as governor next year. (Current gossip had Jim Farley as his Democratic opponent.) But if Tom Dewey won in 1946, he could be a strong contender for the 1948 presidential nomination...
...Bubble Gum. Friday was his big day. In the morning the Mayor paid a surprise visit to a Manhattan traffic court, lectured and grimaced through 197 cases. At 10:30 Friday night, following Governor Dewey's dignified, half-hour endorsement of Republican-Liberal-Fusion Candidate Jonah J. Goldstein, Fiorello LaGuardia had one of his most sparkling innings. "You know," he cackled, "we prepared the studio today to hear the Governor. We put tapes on the windows, we braced ourselves, we wore lead-glass goggles, ready for the atomic bomb. And all we heard was the snap...
...raked New York's ancient political machines from The Bronx to Brooklyn, despaired of his carefully nurtured "good government" if Morris failed at the polls. He even attempted to sell his man to Tom Dewey: "Governor Dewey. I ask you ... do the big thing . . . admit the hopelessness of Goldstein's campaign...
...Willkie Republican. He is also a Yaleman, socialite and good-government career man, who told the voters that his rivals had reached eminence through sordid political deals. Yet his opponents accused him of making a deal with LaGuardia-perhaps for such a sordid purpose as taking votes from Judge Goldstein...
What the French visitor might have found hard to understand was that these complexities of local politics were super imposed on what is fundamentally a two-party system. He would hear reports: Judge Goldstein had been put up to draw the Jewish vote away from the Democrats. . . . Bill O'Dwyer would lose Catholic votes because of his A.L.P. tie-up. . . . Actually the election was just a test of Tom Dewey's ability to get re-elected in 1946. . . . Or it was just a test of Harry Truman's strength in New York...