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This almost happened. Dewey was a New York special prosecutor trying to put away vicious mobster Dutch Schultz (1901-1935) on tax evasion. Schultz wanted to have Dewey killed, and asked permission from a council of other mob bosses. They denied him, and Schultz got mad and said he'd do it anyway, so they had Schultz killed first, because they were afraid of a massive police crackdown ensuing.

What if Schultz had moved more quickly and successfully had Dewey killed?

Dewey was not only the 1948 Republican candidate for U.S. president (famously losing a very tight race to Truman), he also later played a big role in the Republican party, helping get Eisenhower and Nixon elected.

Who runs instead as the Republican candidate in 1948? Can they beat Truman?

What happens to the Republican party in the elections after 1948?

What happens to Dutch Schultz and the New York City mobs?

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I have seen this mentioned a lot, but it sounds like a myth to me. Is there any truth to the claims that Dewey, had he won in 1948, was intent on appointing Hoover to the Supreme Court?

Has anyone put Dewey in charge? Additionally, does anyone have a screenshot of it, or know the event id console command needed to trigger the Election of 1944?

Dewey came close to being our president, but my whole life he was only a name on the newspaper. Many also-rans suffer anonymity, but not all - Stephen Douglas, Al Gore, Richard Nixon (v. Kennedy and the first televised debate), George McClellan, Goldwater - but Dewey has never, in my life, been mentioned in any history class. It seems he only has one biography.. And yet his Wikipedia page makes him out to be a fascinating character and the bio calls him the founder of the modern Republican party. Is he remembered in New York? Are there any buildings named after him? What gives? (edit / addition: did he do something wrong? Is his party embarassed by him? It seems he was very progressive for his time)

Thomas E. Dewey's rise in politics was attributed to his success in cracking down on the mafia, and by extention corruption. If prohibition never occurs, then is there anything "special" about Dewey, or is his success just general competence?

Even if I were going to live forever with my e-book collection, I can't find anything. Let's assume that I can copy all of them to some NAS so that I can start to organize them on that NAS. I still have the problem of categorizing them.

I could try to reproduce the Dewey Decimal System and learn to file them under it. (From what I can tell, it looks pretty easy to grasp the basics.) I have got to think that such a simple-minded approach has already been tried by thousands of amateur e-book hoarders. Thus I have got to think that among all the folks who have tried this approach, at least one of them has stumbled upon a better way. Maybe someone here has already dealt with this problem and can tell me a better method than the Dewey Decimal System.

Edit:

Although Calibre might be an interface to the system, I was thinking that I might need to install some kind of open-source freeware content management system along the lines of Omeka:

https://omeka.org/classic/docs/

Edit 2:

Thanks to the many informative commenters who linked to resources such as:

https://www.reddit.com/r/datacurator/comments/mms3gp/do_the_dewey_for_your_calibre_library/

I now realize that I should re-learn how to use Calibre and its plugins before I start any major e-book re-organization projects!

"Who Won?" indeed.

The Presidency of Thomas Edmund Dewey is one of the most unique stories in American history. Starting out working in his fathers publishing company to the youngest President in American history at the age of 38. His Presidency saw some of Americas most challenging times leaving off the back of the great depression and directly into the bloodiest war in history. Despite being challenged against seemingly insurmountable odds, Dewey rose to become a strong and inspiring leader for the American people

First Term

Presidential Cabinet: 1941-1949

First Term: 1941-1949

Major Economic Legislation:

The first and foremost of President Dewey's platform was to fully recover from the Great Depression. He supported most of the Share our Wealth programs and kept much of it intact, however he broke with what he regarded as “reckless use of Government power” and scaled back taxes as well as blocked the wealth tax. He proposed a revised version called the “Working Americans Program.” This program has aimed to get Americans back into working stable jobs to get money back into the public. The plan seems to have worked as unemployment dropped to a historical low of just 2.1% in late 1944, however many economists argue this is the result of the Great War and the large need for a new workforce with most men getting drafted into service.

Dewey passed the “Equal Pay Act” in 1943 which gave (white) women in the workforce equal pay to men. This was the result of pressure from suffragists following the massive influx of women in the workforce. The Act did not include minorities(male or female) due to opposition from Democrats.

In one of his first moves in office, Dewey passed the “Agricultural Land Appropriation Act'' a bill sponsored by the Socialist Workers Party, which created over 10,000 acres of farm land for the Great Plains States helping to finish off the recovery from the Dust Bowl.

Major Civil Rights Legislation:

The President's Civil Rights legislation has remained thin largely due to the war being a large distraction to the population. Despite this he has managed one major piece of legislation.

In 1942 the President passed an executive order preventing the military from barring African-American s

Do I campaign as a conservative or a liberal regarding labor and the new deal? Should I go pro-civil rights or lukewarm?

This is the fiftieth edition of my hypothetical presidential polling series. Use your alternative goggles to ponder what could have been THOMAS Dewey defeating Truman in the midst of a rift in the Democratic Party and the rapid escalation of the Cold War!

1. Thomas Jefferson (1796): 3.3
2. John Adams (1800): 2.6
3. Charles Pinckney (1804): 2.8
4. Charles Pinckney (1808): 2.4
5. DeWitt Clinton (1812): 3.5
6. Rufus King (1816): 3.4
7. Andrew Jackson (1824): 1.6
8. William Crawford (1824): 2.8
9. Henry Clay (1824): 3.4
10. John Quincy Adams (1828): 3.4
11. Henry Clay (1832): 3.4
12. William Wirt (1832): 3.6
13. William Henry Harrison (1836): 3.0
14. Hugh White (1836): 2.9
15. Martin Van Buren (1840): 2.6
16. Henry Clay (1844): 3.5
17. [Lewis Cass](https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/jw3

Hey, this is the 50th one of these.

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