Talk:Thomas E. Dewey

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Comments on 1948 campaign need cleaned up. DKK

  • Shouldn't it be under cleanup template or expansion. I'm not sure why the PoV check template is on here. Falphin 28 June 2005 22:09 (UTC)
  • I concur with Falphin. I also do not understand why the POV tag is here. Perhaps the user who believes the article is POV could provide further information? Jacob1207 29 June 2005 16:15 (UTC)

The claim that his 1948 campaign was all empty phrases simply strikes me as peculiar. It seems to lack neutrality. If I had the time to fix it with a little research, I would. If you want to change or remove the template, feel free. The article simply struck me as biased. DKK

Actually, Dewey's campaign was widely seen as a bit vacuous. He would state such platitudes as "The future lies ahead of us" and something like "I'm working for a peaceful world." The Republicans admitted that their strategy was to not get into any controversial issues, since they felt they had the election sewn up. BMD

Wasn't Dewey Catholic? I think that deserves a mention.

Why does the sentence about the Thruway specifically mention that Italian-Americans were against naming the Thruway after Dewey?

  • I think the idea is because of his prosecution of members of organized crime, and organized crime was firmly founded in the italian american community (not that all italians were criminals or that other ethnicities weren't, but the entire mafia structure was setup and run by italians, and there is a glass ceiling for people who aren't full blooded italians.) So I'm guessing a certain number of italian americans either held generally favorable opinions of the people he prosecuted, or they took it as an attack on the entire italian american community.Doregasm 18:41, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

I think that Thomas Dewey was Anglican/Episcopalian, but I'm not sure. FDR April 18 2005 11:04 PM (UTC)

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[edit] Dewey Button

Why is the Dewey Button not at all addressed here? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Otterworld (talk • contribs) 00:45, 13 January 2007 (UTC).


"The house that Thomas Dewey was born in is now the site of a Tim Horton's doughnut shop." While this statement may appear to be vandalism, it is fact. The doughnut shop at 323 W. Main Street in Owosso has a Michigan Historic Landmark sign out front describing the location as Thomas Dewey's birthplace. Biblioholic 02:48, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dewey and the Mafia

I have heard from a few sources, for example, the sociologist Kevin Danaher that while Thomas Dewey was governer of New York he released a convicted Mafia Don Lucky Luciano (sp.) from prison under condition that he go back to Sicily and rejuvinate the mafia there because 'the commmunists' were controlling the docks. Apparently one of the good things Mussolini did was get rid of the Italian Mafia. When I find a good source I will add this to the article. Teetotaler

Actually, according to Dewey's chief biographer Richard Norton Smith, the reason Dewey released Luciano wasn't because of Communism. Dewey is the man who had put Luciano in prison in the first place, and he was actually quite reluctant to release him from prison. According to Smith in Thomas E. Dewey and His Times, during World War Two the U.S. military cut a deal with Luciano. If Luciano would use his extensive Mafia contacts in Sicily and Italy to convince the Sicilian and Italian Mafia to help Allied forces in their invasion of Sicily and Italy, then the U.S. military would agree to let Luciano out of prison. Luciano agreed, and according to historical sources the Mafia did help American and British forces in their invasions of Sicily and Italy. The U.S. military then told Dewey - by then the Governor of New York - about their "arrangement" with Luciano, and so Dewey agreed to the deal on the condition that Luciano had to permanently leave the USA and live in Italy for the rest of his life; Luciano gladly did so. Communism played only a minor role (if any) in the decision to release Luciano. I would suggest that anyone interested in Dewey's life read Smith's biography - it is excellent. User: Populism

The 1997 film HOODLUM shows Dewey taking payoffs from the mob. This is a grotesque libel.Saxophobia 00:43, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Most successful vandalism ever?

I just fixed the longest surviving vandalism I've ever seen on Wikipedia. On November 19, 2005, user 130.39.136.122 changed Dewey's famous quote "You know that your future is still ahead of you" to "Your future is bright, very bright indeed, brighter than a bald man's dome." Amazingly this was never corrected, in spite of the strong whiff of fakery about it; there have been hundreds of edits since then. Good job, whoever it was. I can't explain it other than that they must have tapped into a zeitgeist. Maybe it is obvious that our future is brighter than a bald man's dome! 71.129.81.136 13:57, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

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