Word: p
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile Hare Dewey, topping all G. O. P. popularity polls, perfectly groomed and well advised, was on his way to Minneapolis to make.a speech on the farm problem before 12,000 people-and a national radio audience. Of the farm problem he made no mention, but his speech was a bull's-eye. Failure to give the people jobs, economic despair, defeatism-with these Mr. Dewey debited the New Deal, averred that business abuses can be cured without creating Government abuses...
Tick-timed, effectively voiced, the Dewey speech bettered his flying start. Yet at week's end, after carefully considering everything, wise oldsters of the Republican National Committee definitely ticketed young Mr. Dewey for the No. 2 spot in the 1940 G. O. P. race. General (and damning) opinion was: Tom Dewey has no chance for the Presidency, but will make the best Vice Presidential nominee either party has had since Theodore Roosevelt...
...delegations from at least seven Southern (and wholly Democratic) States; four more were ready to flop his way. With these 182 votes, plus Ohio's 52, plus at least 100 miscellaneous pledges, Tortoise Taft appeared to have about 300 ballots-nearly a solid third of the G. O. P.'s 1,000 convention votes. Mr. Dewey had only New York's 92-and a fourth of these were still uncertain...
...President was spending his time these days with sturdy, middle-of-the-road Republicans-the Homer Bunkers, Frank Fetzers, Art Priaulxs -who seemed to stand not for big business ideas or reform, but for fishing, making money, listening to Herbert Hoover, and voting for the G. O. P...
...only political characteristic is that he smokes cigars. But he hates to be photographed doing it. He sometimes drinks a cocktail. Reporters who interview him now find that he has few doubts-of himself, of his ideas, of the U. S., of the prospect that the G. O. P. can defeat the New Deal in 1940. The apostle of confidence has never lost...