Word: deweyitis
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...Luce?who had supported Republican Thomas E. Dewey for President in 1944 and 1948?was for Dwight Eisenhower both before and after the Republican Convention. Both TIME and LIFE supported Ike's candidacy. Luce went to Paris to look Ike over before the general came back to seek the nomination, and was impressed. "As for myself," Luce wrote later, "I had to make a decision which was personally painful. I respected Taft ?as who did not? But I decided I must go for Eisenhower. I thought it was of paramount importance that the American people should have the experience...
...plainspoken journalism, who in 56 years held every job on the Kansas City Star from reporter to president, a rumpled, cigar-chomping extrovert who made his paper "the hair shirt of the community," mixing enthusiastic local coverage with a passion for national politics, promoted Alf Landon in 1936, backed Dewey, Willkie, Ike and Nixon, but supported Lyndon Johnson in 1964, putting the Star on the side of a Democratic presidential candidate for the first time in 80 years, then retired because of poor health and predicted, "I'll have the biggest damn funeral Kansas City has ever seen. They...
...comments found in The Dollar Diploma, but the postalgia felt at the passing of a revolutionary figure fills the book. The "Chicago plan" for liberal education, practiced undiluted on the university's College, had widespread effects on general education programs throughout the nation. Hutchins' ideas, much like John Dewey's, entertained a certain vogue until reactionary criticism arose...
...issue, and find it necessary to add the name of Thomas E. Devvey to the honor roll of leading Republicans for 1968. Almost a half-century of outstanding public service, plus his vigorous participation in the new Republican Coordinating Committee formed after the 1964 G.O.P. tragedy, more than qualify Dewey for the 1968 presidential nomination. The G.O.P. should run Nixon for Vice President, and Barry M. Goldwater should be and will be returned to the Senate. Tom, Dick and Barry are a trio that's really great for a Republican triumph...
...Presbyterian minister, Spurrier, a C student, is apparently ticketed to the National Football League's New York Giants, provided that they are willing to pay his price: a reported $500,000. Other pro teams may have to settle for the likes of Tennessee Quarterback Dewey Warren, who last week completed ten out of 16 for three touchdowns and scored another TD himself as the Vols beat Chattanooga 28-10. And that would be settling...