Word: dewey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dark hours when the President was so sick he was blinded in both eyes . . . The Vice President went there . . . to ask Rogers to make a legal ruling that he, as Vice President, could take over the powers of the President." Only timely intervention by the backers of Tom Dewey, who was traveling in Spain with Attorney General Brownell, said Pearson, had foiled this plot to seize power...
...presidential delegation of powers to Nixon or to anybody else . . . During ensuing conversations with other Cabinet officials Nixon expressed the view that there should be no delegation of powers to himself, even if such a delegation were constitutionally feasible." Furthermore, it developed, Attorney General Brownell was not traveling with Dewey in Spain, nor had President Eisenhower even for a moment lost his sight...
...Britain's enchanting Claire Bloom, seemed well worth it. Playwrights '56 struck a more sombre note with Ernest Hemingway's The Battler, whose familiar plot (a heavyweight champion is broken by success) was well-served by Paul Newman as the crazed, broken-faced pug, and Dewey Martin as a young runaway who finds the world both terrible and tender...
...down the advice of its ally, the Turkish government called in yet another adviser to give it the benefit of his advice and his knowledge of the ways of U.S. Government. As the legal counsel to the Turkish government in the U.S. (TIME, Oct. 16), Manhattan Lawyer Thomas E. Dewey has already taken a look at Turkey's economic affairs and will soon be busy in the U.S. studying what can be done about them. Turkey seems to expect that in return for his retainer-$150,000- Tom Dewey will be able to turn a loud no into...
...March shows a man at his unadorned best, Humphrey Bogart just as skilfully gets inside the workings of a criminal mentality and depicts it as what it is: the mind of an animal. Yet he and the other two jungledwellers, Dewey Martin and Robert Middleton, have their sympathetic moments. They are animals, but curiously complex ones...