Word: stassenism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vandenberg's backers, the strategy looked good. They felt that he was in an enviable position. Unlike Stassen, Vandenberg had trampled on no toes, aroused no vindictive anger among other candidates. In fact, Harold Stassen and Tom Dewey have repeatedly gone out of their way to praise him. Few GOPoliticos believed that either Taft or Dewey would give up for the other to break a stalemate; instead, most believed that they would settle on Vandenberg as the man around whom all G.O.P. elements could most readily unite...
...with an organization called the "Cavemen" at Grants Pass and, at their bidding, munched on a large bone. When his bus ran over a dog near Salem, he shipped off a pedigreed cocker to the bereaved owners, who promptly named it "Dewey" (but told newsmen they were still for Stassen...
...Glib Proposals." Dewey's speeches followed a familiar pattern. He concentrated on belaboring "this incredible Administration of ours," on warning: "Let's be sure we spend our money like hard-headed Americans instead of soft-headed saps." Time & again he thwacked Harold Stassen's ill-considered plan to outlaw the Communist Party. Such "glib proposals" and "easy panaceas," he cried, were "nothing but the methods of Hitler and Stalin ... It is thought control borrowed from the Japanese." He rode the theme so hard that the Portland Oregonian was finally aroused to a tut-tutting editorial...
...smooth sailing. In Eugene a group of student hecklers from the University of Oregon plopped down in the front row, diligently leafed through copies of LIFE with a picture of Harold Stassen on the cover. In Portland, Dewey refused a drink of bourbon offered by a local politico, ducked out for his own bottle of Scotch. Commented a local columnist: "Out West here, podner, men have been shot for refusing to drink out of the common cookin' likker bottle and then showing up with their own pizen...
...Converts. But Dewey's dogged campaigning, his determined attempts at folksiness were unquestionably winning him new converts every day. By week's end Harold Stassen anxiously changed plans and prepared to return to the scene three days ahead of schedule. Dewey was feeling cocky enough to start talking about the men he had in mind for his Cabinet. The Secretary of the Interior, he promised, would certainly be a westerner. For Secretary of State, he announced, he had two men in mind: his longtime adviser John Foster Dulles and his unannounced presidential rival, Arthur Vandenberg...