Word: dewey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Enthusiasm at the Limits. Looking over the roster of G.O.P. governors, Ike could easily spot some able evangelists to lead his new political action team. He would, of course, lean heavily on Tom Dewey, who is internationally famous, a standout executive, and a veteran leader in the liberal Republican movement. Here & there around the country were others, not so well known beyond their state lines, who were heroes to the home folks, and adept at political infighting. Maryland's Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin, the man who nominated Eisenhower at Chicago, was a seaboard internationalist; Colorado's popular Dan Thornton...
...Massachusetts, Christian Archibald Herter, 58, a lean, blond giant (6 ft. 4½ in.) with the searching eyes of an intellectual, the manners of a patrician and the pithy record of a politician, was causing a stir that rippled far beyond the shores of Massachusetts Bay. For Herter, Tom Dewey had a succinct appraisal: "He's the cream of the bottle...
Mahjong in One Lesson. There he was a thoughtful, graceful writer and an incandescent idea man, and he charmed some diverse writers into contributing to the Independent, including Andrew Mellon, Anna Louise Strong, Hilaire Belloc, Frederick Lewis Allen ("Mahjong in One Lesson") and John Dewey. Politically, Herter followed the Republican line, but sometimes the line chafed. He was a strong champion of the League of Nations, a scornful baiter of old Isolationist Henry Cabot Lodge, and he never hesitated to lash the administration in Washington...
When New York's Governor Dewey went to Seattle's waterfront last week with all his colleagues to greet returning Korea veterans, Sergeant John Scotti of Brooklyn spotted Dewey's convertible, leaned over the door and began to chat...
...Dewey: How long have you been in the Army, sergeant...