Word: dewey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the names of Nixon and Warren came first in most speculation, many other names were cropping up. Among them: Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey, 65; former New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, 53; Secretary of State Dulles, 67; Senate Minority Leader William Knowland, 47; Presidential Assistant (for Disarmament) Harold Stassen, 48; Massachusetts Governor Christian Herter, 60. But all of the talking this week was being done by journalists and just plain voters. It would take Republican leaders quite a while to become accustomed to their new and unhappy-but by no means hopeless-situation...
...Democrats Stevenson and Harriman cannot avoid entering primaries against Estes Kefauver, he might beat them, striking hard at their hopes for the nomination, as Wendell Willkie's chances for renomination were wrecked when Tom Dewey defeated him in the 1944 Wisconsin primary. In that case, the field would be wide open...
Frank's income whooshed up from $750 to $3,500 a week, and kept on going. In 1943 he made more than $1,500,000. In 1944, while Governor Dewey, the Republican candidate for the presidency, was greeting a crowd gathered in front of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Democrat Sinatra made a point of passing by. Two minutes later the governor was facing a handful of hard-core Republicans, while almost everybody else was following Frankie Boy down Park Avenue...
...Dewey was a cutie. I don't think Eisenhower is half as cute as Dewey. His strength is in being folksy, homey, and that puts a little different light on beating him, but essentially the situations are the same. Now Dewey was a master at looking good. If there was a scandal in his administration, he investigated the Democratic Party-and got away with it. That State Crime Commission stuff-all directed at me, don't kid yourself . . . O.K., what could...
...Arbor was already on its way to becoming the famed institution it is today. But since the Ann Arbor school was modeled upon the universities of the East, its flavor and purpose were bound to differ from those of M.S.U. While Ann Arbor attracted such scholars as Philosopher John Dewey and Historian Andrew D. White, later president of Cornell, East Lansing's foremost teachers were men who spent as much time helping farmers as lecturing to students. William J. Beal unlocked some of the secrets of hybrid corn; Liberty Hyde Bailey began the career that was to make...