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...York's glamorous young Tom Dewey, currently conceded the lead for the G. 0. P.'s top nomination in 1940,has carefully refrained-while hobnobbing diligently in private with influential people from all over-from making a national speech on national issues. He and his friends know well that he is already well-known from coast to coast, by name & fame if not in inner structure. Had they needed proof of this, the University of Illinois last week supplied it. A board of politically-uninfected faculty members awarded to Tom Dewey, for "enrichment of American life and welfare...
...Washington last week for his second visit in a fortnight was Senator Taft's neck & neck rival (so far) for their party's main 1940 prize. District Attorney Tom Dewey of New York put in an evening last fortnight getting acquainted with his fellow Michigander and No. 2 rival for the nomination, Senator Vandenberg. Last week he put in some long hours with Joe Martin, Minority Leader of the House. Joe Martin agrees with Minority Leader McNary of the Senate that unless the Republicans feel in 1940 that they can win with anybody, Tom Dewey is the glamor...
Martin ran against Ham Fish in the 26th Congressional district of New York on the Democratic and Labor ticket, losing in the face of the Dewey landslide, but finishing well ahead of his ticket. A representative of the younger element in politics. Martin graduated from the University of California in 1934, where he was president of the college comic magazine. He is a brother-in-law of John S. Stillman, president...
...show the styles, manners, opinions, interests of the American people. But after Mr. Mason gets his reader into the actual conflict with the Spaniard, he entirely forgets to write of the folks back home and embarks on an inconsequential play-by-play account of Shafter's insular campaign and Dewey's tugboat race to Manila...
...star guest, the virtuoso of ribbery. Ohio's Senator Robert Alphonso Taft was presented (in person) as a Republican foil to the President. Bob Taft proceeded to make on-the-record news by making a sensationally poor speech. When he had finished, New York's Tom Dewey applauded, grinned. He shared his friends' certainty that, if speechmaking has much to do with it, Bob Taft will not be hard for him to beat for the Republican Presidential nomination...