Word: dewey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remains, however, self-confessedly no statesman. The marvel is that Poland, once given the boon of a government which is at least stable, has forged ahead so rapidly in agriculture, industry and commerce. Pertinent is a report recently issued by Financial Advisor to the Bank of Poland Charles Schuveldt Dewey, onetime (1924-27) Assistant Secretary of the U. S. Treasury...
...Advisor Dewey's keynotes...
...Coolidge. The "Coolidge-anyway" movement, revived last fortnight as a local expedient in Illinois by Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago, drew another breath last week when National Republican Committeeman Charles Dewey Hilles of New York stepped out of President Coolidge's study one day and said: "Mr. Coolidge will be voted for in the Kansas City convention whether he is placed in nomination or not." President Coolidge did not call Mr. Hilles back to reprove him, nor was any quietus put upon the transparent ballyhoo in Chicago, the immediate purpose of which was to strengthen...
...might have been U. S. President during the Civil War, or built a fortune as big as the Rockefellers' or outshone Sam Houston, Dewey and Lindbergh as heroes. But ask the man-on-the-street today who John Charles Frémont was, and the answer will probably be: "The name sounds familiar, but I can't quite place...
...more obstructive to Hooverism was a meeting last week in Manhattan of G. O. Politicians who professed to believe that President Coolidge might yet be forced to run. Among these professionals were National G. O. P. Chairman William Morgan Butler of Massachusetts, National Vice Chairman Charles Dewey Hilles of New York, National Secretary Roy Owen West of Illinois. Primarily their meeting was to arrange housing details of the Kansas City convention but they could not deny that they talked politics, too. What with news from Pennsylvania that Secretary Mellon had ordered an uninstructed delegation, the Hoover boom last week seemed...