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Another Republican challenge to debate came from New York's Governor Thomas Dewey. Speaking from Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria before the National Industrial Conference Board, Dewey confined himself generally to U.S. Far Eastern policy. Unlike Hoover, he urged no shrinkage but an extension of American commitment in foreign policy...
...Said Dewey: "Our mutual defense picture in the Pacific looks something like Europe would look if we had guaranteed to fight for Norway in the north, for Belgium in the center, for Greece in the south, leaving all the rest of the continent of Europe as fair game for Communist aggression." The governor, as he has done before, proposed a defensive alliance that would include not only Japan, the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand, but also the islands of Indonesia and the menaced countries of Southeast Asia. With the alliance, he said, there should be a clear warning that retaliation...
...education program, but Columbia University's "Extension" has long been something special. It has given the usual courses in "The Care and Mending of Children's Underwear" and "How a City Man Can Succeed in Farming." But students have also been able to take philosophy under John Dewey, anthropology under Ruth Benedict, literature under John Erskine, law under Harold Medina, theology under Reinhold Niebuhr. Extension has been a bargain counter loaded with first-rate goods. Over the years, thousands of adults-from Critic Lionel Trilling to Baseballer Lou Gehrig -have snapped up its wares...
...Gentlemen of the Press (1929). Reporter John Derek never takes off his hat, scoops not only the opposition but also the cops; ruthless Editor Broderick Crawford prints anything to get a rise out of his circulation. Together they turn a staid Manhattan daily (U.S. election headline: MR. DEWEY DEFEATED) into a rag that thrives on blood, cheesecake and tears...
Eunice Barzynski, a WAC captain on his staff, later married her. After two years of occupation duty, Draper was called home to become Under Secretary of the Army. Then, before he could get deeply back in investment banking, New York's Governor Dewey asked him late in 1950 to take over the debt-ridden, wreck-ridden Long Island Rail Road. When he accepted, The New Yorker quipped: "He has a good head for aches...