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...Great Society." While there was apparently no single source (just before he mentioned it at Ann Arbor last May, he had been talking with Writers John Steinbeck and Barbara Ward, among many others), two possible inspirations are particularly intriguing. One is a 1927 book by Pragmatist Philosopher John Dewey, in which he discussed the "search for the Great Community" in terms of liberating individual potentialities; the other is a 1921 book by British Fabian Socialist Graham Wallas entitled The Great Society, which advocated beauty and serenity in a harsh, industrialized world through the psychological "Organization of Happiness." Whether...
...chosen law, his famous father could have greased the ways a little. But Thomas E. Dewey Jr., 32, wanted to make it himself in finance. Make it he did. A vice president of Wall Street Investment Banker Kuhn Loeb & Co. at 31, he has now been elected one of the youngest general partners in the firm's 97-year history. All this after his Princeton graduating class (1954) made him its second choice for "least likely to succeed...
...door was wide open. When it ruled on the case of McLaughlin v. Florida, the Supreme Court could easily have ruled on the constitutionality of all miscegenation laws in the 19 states where they still exist. But strictly speaking, Connie Hoffman, who is a white woman, and Dewey McLaughlin, who is a Honduran hotel worker, had been convicted of only one form of miscegenation. They had violated a Florida law forbidding an unmarried couple of different races to "habitually live in and occupy in the nighttime the same room." And the court, so often decried as a ruthless uprooter...
Race & Policy. Arrested in Miami in 1962, sentenced to 30 days in jail and fined $150, Dewey and Connie appealed to the Florida Supreme Court. The trial judge, they pointed out, had specifically denied them the defense of common-law marriage, which Florida recognizes when contracted between persons of the same race. The judge did so on the grounds that Florida bans interracial marriage. The defendants argued that that law was unconstitutional, but the state's highest court, citing an 1883 Supreme Court decision upholding an Alabama law against interracial sexual relations (Pace v. Alabama), affirmed their conviction...
NIXON: Gee, Barry, I'm not sure our candidates have all been me-too types. I mean Landon was a fine fellow, a fine Republican, and Willkie, and Dewey, and the President here and (pause) I suppose a few others...