Word: owosso
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roosevelt's Suite 1527-29, relaxed and confident. As he has every election night of his career, he and his family dined at the home of Roger Straus, banker and longtime Dewey adviser. Then, flanked by his wife, his two sons, his mother (who had come from Owosso to be with her son at his great moment) and aides Elliott Bell and Paul Lockwood, he settled himself in his suite with a pad of yellow scratch paper on his lap. He watched a television set, listened to the radio, scanned bulletins from a news ticker. Press Secretary Jim Hagerty...
...Owosso, Mich., Governor Thomas...
...week's end the Victory Special came triumphantly to Owosso (pop. 18,000), the candidate's home town. Some 20,000 people lined the streets as the motorcade carried the Deweys up Main Street, past the second-story apartment over Colvin's home appliance store where Dewey was born, up to the Owosso High School Stadium, where nine bands blared...
...Useful." When the parade was over, the candidate rose amidst a clapping of hands. He didn't intend to talk politics, he said. "I assume most of you folks are going to vote for me." He remarked how well people in Owosso got along. "We're all useful," he added. "We depend on each other...
Comptroller Kohler was a natural for the assignment. A 55-year-old Michigan-born accountant (from Tom Dewey's home town of Owosso), he first stubbed his toe on Government brass as a World War I quartermaster officer. His persistent attempt to overhaul the archaic accounting methods of the sprawling Chicago quartermaster's office caused a ruckus that brought him to the verge of a court-martial. But the quartermaster general took one look at Kohler's suggestions, ordered them adopted on the spot...