Word: deweyitis
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...proposed by him after he took three weeks to confer with an attorney and negotiate with Chrysler attorneys. In October the finances of the 36 remaining top executives were given a clean bill by an investigation conducted by Chrysler's own law firm and checked by Thomas E. Dewey's firm. As for the conversation concerning a job for Colbert's son, Colbert said that it was Mrs. Newberg who suggested it to his wife, and there was no indication that Newberg had any connection with the company...
...Nation's Future (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Hugh Gaitskell and Thomas E. Dewey debating "Should the West Modify Its Policy Toward the Soviet Union...
...Trotskyites and totalitarians of any stripe. On his minuscule budget, Editor Levitas could not afford to pay his contributors, telling them: "Don't expect to profit from the truth." With that approach, and with his policy of letting them write whatever they wished, he attracted such as John Dewey, Bertrand Russell, Carl Sandburg, George Orwell, Herbert Morrison and Walter Reuther...
...great deal to teach a much wider audience than the few, carefully screened students he admitted to his presence. Along with his friend Violette de Mazia, he wrote some of the most widely discussed art criticism of his time, boasted as good friends such men as John Dewey and Painter William Glackens. Yet to the time of his death at 79, he insisted that his foundation was not running a public gallery but was an educational institution with a "program for systematic work." Four separate taxpayers' suits failed to open the doors...
...solid Republican, Dillon wrote foreign-policy speeches for Dewey in 1948, was an early bird for Ike in 1951. After the 1952 campaign, he was rewarded with the ambassadorship to Paris. No post could have made Dillon happier. His family owned one of the finest vineyards in the Bordeaux region, Château Haut-Brion, and his cousin, a resident of France who served his adopted country with distinction during the Occupation, was possibly the only native of the U.S. ever elected mayor of a French village. Though Dillon spoke fluent French, he took an hour's instruction daily...