At Albany Tom Dewey withheld comment on Franklin Roosevelt's acceptance speech. But he tossed a grenade at the President's most aggressive supporters, the C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee.
P.A.C. had charged that Governor Dewey deliberately made it difficult, even impossible, for New York members of the Armed Forces to vote by refusing to ap prove the Federal War Ballot. In reply Tom Dewey hammered two points: 1) the Federal War Ballot, which provides a place to vote only for the President, Vice President and members of Congress, would not be valid in New York because the State Constitution specifies...
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