Governor Dewey's announcement of more state educational aid for veterans made Page One.
The chairman of the New York Voluntary Health Organizations reported that one in four residents of New York state were covered with hospital insurance from the eight Blue Cross Plans of the Associated Hospital Services. One in seven in the US were covered by Blue Cross hospitalization plans. The committee report also stated that diseases of old age would increasingly dominate the medical problems of the future. The four leading causes of death- heart disease, cancer and malignant tumors, intracranial lesions of vascular origin and diseases of the nerves- caused 57 per cent of all deaths in the US at this time.
Governor Dewey restored four-week vacations for state employees. It had been reduced to three weeks or less during the War.
Senator James M.Mead, potential Democratic candidate for Governor of New York, called upon his party to give full support to a policy of "militant progressivism" at a Jefferson Day dinner in Albany. Mead did become the Democratic candidate for governor but lost to incumbent Thomas Dewey. Militant and progressive were liberal buzz words of the time but would soon be retired as the country turned rightward.