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...pipe fitters' union, gazed with admiring eye on a St. Clair County plowing contest. Democratic Governor G. Mennen Williams was out exercising the charm that had won him the title (bestowed by a Republican) of "the Liberace of Michigan politics." His Republican rival, Lawyer Donald Leonard, politicked from Owosso to Kalamazoo...
...long after he came to New York, Brownell joined the Republican club in the old Tenth Assembly District (now the First). In 1931, Brownell was the Republican candidate for the legislature, and his campaign manager was another young lawyer out of the Midwest, Thomas Edmund Dewey, sometime of Owosso, Mich. Brownell lost. Next year Brownell won, the only New York City Republican that year to succeed a Democrat...
Thomas E. Dewey, the oracle of Owosso, for his most remarkable, double-header victory in taming the Taftites and terminating the Trumanites...
...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...