Word: owosso
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Malts Alarm. In Owosso, Mich., when a fire started in Dewey Campbell's auto, Dewey got a bottle of beer from a saloon, shook it up, extinguished the flame with foaming brew...
Died. Annie Thomas Dewey, 77, mother of New York's Governor Thomas Dewey (an only child), widow of George Martin Dewey Jr., Owosso postmaster and publisher of the Owosso Times; of a heart attack; in Owosso, Mich...
...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...