Word: dewey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brownell has been the most political Attorney-General yet. Part of the reason for this lies in the man. Ever since boyhood, when his hobby was collecting campaign buttons, everything Brownell has touched has turned to politics. He became the chief strategist for New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey back in the 1930's, when the two fought against the "white-shoe" faction of the New York County Republican committee. In this role, he engineered the nomination of Dewey for President in 1944 and 1948, playing a key-part in the bitter intra-party was between Eastern and Midwestern...
...lifelong political strategy not to be a planned maneuver. Back when Brownell was masterminding Gubernatorial politics in New York, the Republicans consistently posed as a party of liberalism, pulling issues of social reform out from under the Democrats and winning state elections when the national party was losing them. Dewey's "me-too" campaign of 1948 was an extension of the New York strategy to the national scene. Brownell has now reached out from his middle position to guide the Eastern Republicans, whose task for the last fourteen years has been first to beat the conservatives, then to turn around...
...York tabloid News, started hammering at the Roosevelt Raceway, about half a mile from Newsday's plant, charged that Long Island's Building Trades Boss (A.F.L.) William De Koning was shaking down builders and track employees for close to $1,000,000 a year. Governor Thomas E. Dewey appointed a special commission to clean up the raceways, and last month Labor Leader De Koning was sentenced to a year to a year and a half in Sing Sing for extortion...
...Rather Be Right." As a student (Cornell and Teachers College), Russell came under the conflicting influences of John Dewey and William ("I'd rather be right than Progressive") Bagley. He survived the excesses of the psychological testers who seemed to think that education could be reduced to a series of quotients. Later, he observed William Heard Kilpatrick's philosophy ("We learn what we live"), which turned millions of pupils away from their books to endless activity projects. When T.C.'s Professor George Counts was going through his Utopian phase of daring schools to "build a new social...
...imposed on mankind and that fragile quality, his capacity for novel ideas, for novel aspects of old ideas, be frozen and he go on century after century . . . until he and his society reach the static level of the insects . . . You may have wondered at my coolness, not to John Dewey personally . . . but to his thought. The reason is that the emphasis of his thought is on security. But the vitality of man's mind is in adventure...