Word: deweyitis
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...four is likely to become a practicing lawyer, and it is something of a tradition for defeated G.O.P. presidential nominees to join big Wall Street law firms. After losing to F.D.R. in 1940, Wendell Willkie entered the partnership now named Willkie Farr Gallagher Walton & Fitzgibbon. In 1955 Tom Dewey joined Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer & Wood, which promptly renamed itself Dewey, B., B., P. & W. Richard Nixon has joined Mudge, Stern, Baldwin & Todd, and the firm has changed its handle to Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alexander...
Trotsky fought back doggedly. He dashed off articles condemning the bloodbath; he wrote his great dogmatic book, The Revolution Betrayed. In 1937, Trotskyites in various countries set up a commission of reasonably impartial observers, with John Dewey at its head, to establish the facts. The commission held a week of hearings at Trotsky's home in Mexico. After months of sifting the evidence, it solemnly found Trotsky innocent of all the charges brought against him in Moscow...
According to Carsie Hall, an attorney for the Student Nonviolent Co-ordinating Committee (SNCC), the three students, all Negroes, left a Jackson cafe in a taxi driven by Dewey Short (allegedly known as "Short-change"), and were told the fare would be $1 for the trip. When they arrived, however, Dewey insisted on a $1.50 fare...
When the trio finally handed Dewey two $1 bills, he allegedly refused to give them their change. A scuffle ensued, one of the students grabbed one of the bills back, and they left the cab. A few hours later they were arrested by Jackson police on Dewey's charge that he had been robbed...
...guest list read like an East Coast Republicans' Who's Who. Among those attending: former U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell, political strategist for Tom Dewey and Dwight Eisenhower; CBS Board Chairman William Paley; Du Font's Pierre S. du Pont III; General Electric's Ralph Cordiner; former Defense Secretary Tom Gates, an Ike intimate; New York Herald Tribune President Walter Thayer; Philadelphia Inquirer Publisher Walter Annenberg, and party officials from Delaware and New Jersey. Invited but sending regrets were George M. Humphrey, Eisenhower's Treasury Secretary, and former G.O.P. National Chairman Meade Alcorn...