Word: shoebrush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With fanfare but without fuss New York Republicans picked youngish (40) shoebrush-mustached Thomas E. Dewey this week to run for Governor. They applauded Keynoter Joe R. Hanley: "It is high time that this nation realizes that you cannot win this war with business as usual, strikes as usual, pleasures as usual and happiness as usual." Then happily, enthusiastically they turned to the pleasures of Saratoga Springs-where their convention was held-thronged its race track, filled its bars four-deep, paraded and played all through the night...
Last week Thomas E. Dewey, running like a mountain jack rabbit, scorched through St. Louis, Chicago, Milwaukee, Madison, Wis., burning up energy, microphones and the New Deal. The hard little attorney with the shoebrush mustache continued to make the best Republican speeches U. S. citizens have heard in many a day, continued also to be allotted the No. 2 slot, at most, by professional GOP ticket makers. The Dewey keynote-that the New Deal means defeatism-still echoed in the U. S. like a shout down a well...
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