Word: dewey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charlie sat down and wrote a letter to big-fisted, fast-talking Allan B. Kline, wealthy Iowa hog breeder who had expected to become Tom Dewey's Secretary of Agriculture and whose position as Farm Bureau president made him leader of more than 1,400,000 of the richest, most influential U.S. farming families. It was only fair, the Secretary told Kline, that the federation let the Department of Agriculture explain its Brannan Plan before the delegates tried to pass judgment...
...Harry Darby was as Republican as Kansas itself. A national committeeman, he turned down the national chairmanship this year, before it was handed to New Jersey's Guy Gabrielson. Darby wrenched control of Kansas' Republican delegation from Alf Landon last year and led it on to the Dewey bandwagon-and was one of the rare few who warned Deweymen that the Republicans might lose the 1948 election...
...trouble," one student said last night, "is that Republicans leaders don't have big enough families. Tom Dewey doesn't even have one daughter. Maybe Governor Warren's daughter should have been picked...
Eloquence for Hire. Currently, Washington's most conspicuous ghost is President Truman's Clark Clifford (Economic Adviser Elliott Bell performs the same function for the Republicans' Governor Tom Dewey). Air Force Secretary Stuart Symington is supplied with speeches by young, cocky Steve Leo, onetime Maine newsman; Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan by ex-TIME Reporter Wesley McCune. General Omar Bradley's famed, soldierly prose is the product of Lieut. Colonel Chet Hansen, an ex-newspaperman who planned to leave but has been persuaded to stay on-to finish Bradley's memoirs. Of the host...
Meanwhile, beyond the Midway, other educators chimed in with protests. To John Dewey, the split between Hutchins and himself was "the cleft that now marks every phase and aspect of philosophy. It presents the difference between an outlook that goes to the past for instruction and for guidance, and one that holds that philosophy . . . must pay supreme heed to movements, needs, problems, and resources that are distinctively modern...