Word: deweyism
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...center of the Big Noise was Harry Truman, thriving on the greatest helping of political attention he has received since upsetting Tom Dewey for the presidency in 1948. He was in Chicago less than three hours before he began cutting into the buttery era of good feeling with a sharp knife. Then, with all his influence as ex-statesman and master politico, he plumped for New York's Governor Averell Harriman for the presidential nomination, gave his ex-presidential word that Harriman's experience could best serve the party and the nation. He spurned Front Runner Adlai Stevenson...
...Year IV of Dwight Eisenhower, Democrats find cause for hope in the Harry Truman who stood before them at 2 o'clock on the stifling Philadelphia morning of July 15, 1948, and told them how to win an election they were ready to concede to Tom Dewey. Senator Barkley and I will win this election and make those Republicans like it," cried Truman. "Don't you forget that! We will do that because they are wrong and we are right." That is the Truman the Democratic Party hopes to see next week. It is the Truman who represents...
...majority says it is, what is to prevent the group from plumping for head-hunting or cannibalism, or destructionism or any other "ism" if it's the group's idea of "being happier, more rational and humane?" Brameld's "dementiaism" sounds like a lot of John Dewey's tripe warmed over...
...Higham, in stately Latin (Truman was furnished a pony in advance), praised the ex-President for the Berlin airlift, the North Atlantic Treaty, "the initiative he took in defending Korea." Higham drew academic giggles with a parody on the Aeneid that recalled Truman's 1948 upset victory over Dewey: "Heu vatum igname mentes! Quid vota repulsum, quid promissa iuvant? Tua quid praesagia, Gallup?" (Carefree translation: The seers saw not your defeat, poor soul-vain prayers, vain promises, vain Gallup poll!) Lauding his modesty, Higham quoted Truman's supposed resume of his first day's activity after returning...
...John Dewey Allen, 58, onetime messenger at the New York Produce Exchange (oils, fats, grain, seed, feed, flour), was elected the exchange's 59th president. As a boy, Allen picked up pin money plucking pickle cucumbers on his native Long Island. Breaking in as a messenger on the exchange floor in 1914, he became floor trader for Munn & Jenkins, shipping brokers, later founded his Allen Shipping Co., worldwide middleman between shipowners and bulk cargo shippers. Allen saw duty in two world wars (from buck private to colonel), directed operations at the port of Antwerp in World...