Before all the votes had been tallied, the Chicago Tribune printed an early edition with the banner headline: “Dewey beats Truman”. Clutching a copy of the Tribune, a smiling Truman later ...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3, 1948 (UPI) --Governor Thomas E. Dewey conceded today that President Truman had been elected in the closest presidential race in 32 years. It was perhaps the greatest upset in ...

Dewey in 1948 embraced a distant, glide-path strategy against President Harry Truman (D), sidestepping controversy and offering tame platitudes such as the importance of national “unity.” ...

The popular vote at that time stood: Truman - 19,860,759 Dewey - 18,488,038 Wallace - 1,028,015 ... Sean "Diddy" Combs beat his former girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, for having a relationship with ...

The race a century later, however, would result in the newspaper’s most famous headline: “DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN.” The Tribune was on deadline the night of Nov. 2, 1948. In the absence of ...

Thomas Dewey as the winner. However, nobody was happier about this mistake than the man from Independence, Missouri --- President Harry Truman."Who doesn't love to have a good laugh at the expense ...

Harry Truman’s 1948 stock has taken a strong upsurge, the FORTUNE Survey reported last week. In March, the FORTUNE poll showed that any one of four Republican candidates—Dewey, Stassen ...

In what was considered a major upset in the 1948 presidential election, Democratic President Harry Truman defeated Republican New York Governor Thomas Dewey and third-party candidates to win a ...