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Added to the staff of the Moreland Commission, reappraising state liquor laws in the wake of New York's recent licensing scandals: John M. Dewey, 27, Harvard Law '62, youngest son of former Governor Thomas E. Dewey. Will he follow in Dad's racket-busting footsteps to a political career? "Of course, I have thought about it, but I have no interest in politics right...
According to the Associated Press, Dewey Roosevelt Greene Jr., 22, of Greenwood, Miss., field suit Friday in U.S. District Court, claiming that he was eligible to enroll under the same order which admitted Meredith in September...
...Today these four parties are as intact as ever: the Roosevelt-Truman-Stevenson-Kennedy presidential Democrats; the Willkie-Dewey-Eisenhower-Rockefeller presidential Republicans; the John Garner-Howard Smith-Harry Byrd-John McClellan congressional Democrats; and the Allen Treadway*-Robert Taft-Charles Halleck congressional Republicans...
...Squeak Emblem. Built by the Spanish and captured by Admiral Dewey, the ship looks more like a gingerbread house on a raft than a U.S. gunboat. She does not even have a full U.S. crew. Over the years, Chinese coolies in search of "squeeze" have slowly taken over all the work aboard-first the dirtiest jobs which no American sailor wanted to do, finally everything from cooking and laundry to electrical wiring and engine-room repair. By the time Jake Holman arrives, only the guns are reserved for U.S. control...
Political soothsayers predicted Thomas E. Dewey's election in 1948 and foresaw H. Stuart Hughes' candidacy cutting into Democrat Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy's vote total in the 1962 Massachusetts senatorial race. Their level of accuracy apparently hasn't improved much in 14 years...