In the second week of his campaign, pushing down the West Coast, Tom Dewey fought on in cold, logical and precise fashion. He had a difficult task: to be New Dealish enough to hold the vote of all those who do not want a reactionary administration but are weary of New Deal mismanagements; yet to attack powerfully enough to please those who are just plain mad at Franklin Roosevelt.
In Seattle, he laid down a precise barrage against the New Deal's labor-coddling, against WLB's timidity, red tape and politicking. (Said onetime WLBster Wayne Lyman Morse, now Oregon's G.O.P. Senate candidate: "It is...
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