Word: deweyism
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...hitch in New York's Fineberg law that held up its application to colleges was ironed out by the state legislature this year. On April 15, Governor Dewey signed into law a bill extending its provisions to City College of New York, Brooklyn, Hunter, and Queens colleges, as well as the plethora of state teachers colleges in Americas most populous state...
...youngster watching from the sidewalk was killed at the Watkins Glen race last fall (Lloyd's of London jacked up the insurance rates for road-race organizers after that one). Moreover, earlier last week, road racing had taken another blow when New York's Governor Tom Dewey banned road racing from all state highways. Bridgehampton's town board decided to double the number of special policemen (increasing them to 240), let the races go on over the town's road next day as scheduled...
...Hall will have to improve the G.O.P. state machinery. The ideal would be an efficient hierarchy of command, reaching down to the counties, along which could flow all applications for jobs. But in most states the G.O.P. operates cumbersomely. New York is a model of political precision: Governor Tom Dewey makes the decisions and keeps a man in Washington to speak for him (ex-Congressman Robert T. Ross). But few states are so well disciplined. In Pennsylvania, appointments need the approval of such feuding bosses as Senator Jim Duff, Governor John Fine, Mason Owlett and Senator Ed Martin...
...midst of a baffling wave of burglaries in downtown Burlington, Vt., Sheriff Dewey Perry sensed a strange new atmosphere around " his jailhouse. "There was something wrong about the tempo," he said. "Everything was too quiet." Searching for the cause, the sheriff came across a shaky-looking brick wall in the jailhouse basement. With one finger, he pushed bricks out on to Main Street. Then he searched his twelve prisoners. Frederick Hamelin had $60 in his pocket, another $145 sewn neatly into his pillow. Clyde B. Hamblin had $143 hidden in his bedding. Hamblin's and Hamelin's cells...
...hitch in New York's Fineberg law that held up its application to colleges was ironed out by the state legislature this year. On April 15, Governor Dewey signed into law a bill extending its provisions to City College of New York, Brooklyn, Hunter, and Queens colleges, as well as the plethora of state teachers colleges in Americas most populous state...