Word: deweyitis
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...John Birch Society and other right-wing organizations are complaining that the Post Office is cottoning to subversive types with a 25? stamp portraying Negro Leader Frederick Douglass, a $1 issue honoring Playwright Eugene O'Neill, an 8? Albert Einstein number, and others of Philosopher John Dewey and Revolutionary War Pamphleteer Tom Paine. Last spring the Protestant-dominated Americans United for Separation of Church and State filed suit in U.S. district court to prevent the 1967 reissue, in a slightly larger version, of last year's Christmas stamp, a Madonna and Child portrait by 15th century Flemish Artist...
...intra-party battles for the GOP nomination, this dealer, with a careful eye and a million contacts, has always been a winner, switching over the ideological fence from time to time: through the middle 1950's he worked for the Dewey-Eisen-hower contingents (instead of for Taft, the conservative) and then he shifted to Nixon in 1960 and Goldwater...
...dimmer view. "I don't see the consumer as any more confident," insists Retailer Ralph Lazarus, president of Federated Stores. "His real income is not rising. He's worried about layoffs, prices, taxes, high interest rates and the course of the war." Federal Reserve Board Governor Dewey Daane says bluntly: "The current optimism has gone...
...midfielders have been Penn's strong point this year, particularly Gil Costin and Charley Dewey. Jim Patton and Irwin Klein have supplied offensive power...
...transformation can be traced largely to the board's four junior members-all economists, all appointed since 1961, all independent enough in word and deed to blur old liberal-conservative labels, flout traditions, flaunt new ideas. Dewey Daane, 48, a Harvard-trained former Treasury aide, likes to call himself a "neo-Keynesian swinger." His was the key vote in the board's 4-3 decision to raise the discount rate-the interest that the Fed charges member banks for borrowing-from 4% to its present 41% in December 1965. George Mitchell, 63, onetime director of finance...