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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1948
Page
2
The convention shows broad support for Dewey as the presidential nominee with Warren as a secondary choice on the ticket. An editorial note clarifies the column reflects the analysts' views, not the newspaper.
At the Philadelphia convention Dewey emerged as the exclusive front runner after a stop Dewey bid faltered. Taft Stassen Warren Vandenberg and MacArthur fell away as Dewey secured 1 004 delegates on the third ballot and Warren was named vice president amid party realignment.
A reminiscence recalls a Iowa grandmother with a ten foot oleander kept alive by a loyal fire keeper in a cold climate. The piece shifts to a critique of Congress resisting Truman era inflation controls and credit tightening, urging restoration of reserve requirements and repeal of Greenback era currency expansions.
Thomas E. Dewey emerges as a self made success story driven by precise ambition and directed energy. At 46 he has twice won New York governor’s office and once more defeated for it while earning two Republican presidential nominations. Born in Owosso Michigan he rose to prominence in New York City as a reform district attorney.
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