Word: governors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dewey Gets Elected." Governor Dewey had spent a very pleasant afternoon, wandering around in shirtsleeves, whistling airs from Oklahoma!. Since early afternoon his limousine had been parked across from his hotel, ready to take him to the hall the moment the word came...
...Dewey is a comeback man. He was beaten for governor in 1938, won in 1942 and 1946. He was beaten for the presidential nomination in 1940, won it in 1944. He was beaten in the presidential election in 1944. Coming...
...Hall of New York; Dewey's John Foster Dulles; National Committeeman Lew Wentz of Oklahoma; Barak Mattingly of Missouri and Mason Owlett of Pennsylvania. Others were days-old allies, men who had thrown their weight behind the Dewey bandwagon when that weight counted most-New Jersey's Governor Alfred Driscoll, Pennsylvania's Senator Ed Martin, Massachusetts' Governor Robert F. Bradford, Senator Leverett Saltonstall, and the Kansas City Star's Roy Roberts. Vandenberg had accepted Dewey's invitation...
...choice. But if Halleck had been promised anything, it had been only a hunting license. In Room 808, the license was promptly torn up. Neither Arthur Vandenberg nor Dulles could accept Halleck's isolationist record as House Majority Leader. Other politicians looked in. Ohio's Governor Thomas Herbert came to plead the case of Senator John Bricker. New Jersey's Senator H. Alexander Smith (backed by Driscoll) urged the cause of Harold Stassen...
...denied indignantly that Room 808 was a "smoke-filled room." Said he: "The only thing in there was this cigar and it wasn't lit." Shortly after 4, the meeting broke up. Dewey called the man who had been his personal choice all along-California's Governor Earl Warren...