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...Candidate Thomas Edmund Dewey up the mountain. Behind him lay 1) a record as a racket-buster so phenomenal that people were tired of hearing about it; 2) a record as a politician based on the narrow margin (about 64,000 votes) by which he was defeated for the Governorship of New York in 1938; 3) a favorite's position as voters' preconvention choice-56%, according to the Gallup poll-in the race for the Republican nomination. And before him, besides the Western ranges, lay a series of talks in Helena, Spokane, Portland, Salt Lake, Boise...
Neither amateur nor veteran is Thomas Dewey as a politician. He got through a cleanup of labor racketeers without giving substance to hysterical charges that he was antilabor; fought a bitter campaign for the governorship against a Jewish banker and slapped down attempts to inject anti-Semitism into the campaign; for the first time in U. S. history has made one of the 3,070 county District Attorney's offices a jumping-off place for a major-party run for the Presidency. He has a quick political eye that would be useful in a hard campaign: reading the morning...
Even more phenomenal in 1938 was Thomas E. Dewey's loss of the New York Governorship by less than 1 % of the total vote (4,821,631). To many a U. S. citizen Mr. Dewey was already a glamorous St. George; he became a top G. O. P. possibility for 1940. Mr. Dewey, in fact, looked like a political Hare. Down the track he dashed last week, lengths ahead of the field. The Hare...
Governor Long then began his New Orleans campaign for the Governorship with the reassuring statement that his "hands were clean." But at this point the Federal Government showed interest in why the tax-racket hearings had been stopped. One of Attorney General Frank Murphy's "smart boys," Harold Rosenwald, announced that the Federal Grand Jury would immediately start hearings. Earl Kemp Long kept mum. But he and all Louisiana were aware that only Earl's boss, Mayor Robert S. Maestri of New Orleans, still remained untouched by the tidal wave that in four months has washed up nearly...
Statesman Sadler won in a walk-away with his slogan: "Sadler in the Saddle." He now shares top place on the mighty Railroad Commission with its once all-powerful Colonel Ernest O. Thompson, who is no slouch on slogans himself. Col. Thompson is gunning for the Governorship, with a plan to tax oil for old-age pensions ("A Nickel a Barrel for Grandma"). Governor O'Daniel, who said he would pass the biscuits to all the old folks when he was Governor, is still trying to get his hands on the dough...