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Dewey Camp Confident of Victory After Acceptance Speech
A confident Dewey camp hailed the 1948 Republican nominee’s path to victory as he spoke from his Bellevue Stratford hotel suite. Police lines cleared a route as Dewey greeted supporters and his nomination was assured on the convention floor amid a show of broad backing and early Washington expectations.
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Bellevue- Stratford
Owosso, Mich
Philadelphia
Thomas E. Dewey
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dewey
Washington
Republican Party
Truman
Managees
Herbert Brownell
New York City
J. Russell Sprague
Lawrence
N. Y
Edwin Jaeckle
Buffalo
Bedlam
Bellevue-Stratford