The Dewey Week

Last week, Tom Dewey:

P: Denounced Congressman Ham Fish for antiSemitism. Fish, campaigning for reelection in New York's agth District, had said that Jews favor the New Deal. Said Dewey: "Anyone who injects a racial or religious issue into a political campaign is guilty of a disgraceful, un-American act." Fish, also denounced in newspaper ads signed by such intellectual constituents as Playwright Maxwell Anderson, threatened a $250,000 libel suit against Anderson. Wendell Willkie offered to defend Anderson free.

P: Conferred at Albany with Running Mate John Bricker. To newsmen, who tried to exploit the pre-convention gap between the two governors' international philosophies, Dewey answered crisply: "We found ourselves in disagreement on nothing."

P: Set out for his "Meet me in St. Louis" date with 25 other Republican Governors. On the agenda: 15 "areas of conflict" between state and federal governments. Also sure to be discussed: G.O.P. campaign strategy.

P: Learned that a Gallup Poll showed him a winner over Franklin Roosevelt in four key Midwestern States--Michigan (57%), Ohio (54%), Illinois (54%), Indiana (57%)--if the election were held now.

This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so reader's discretion is required.