Word: deweyitis
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Even more ominous for Japan in the long term were the consequences of SCAP's educational reforms. Basic occupation policy on education was laid down in 1946 by an Education Mission heavily loaded with men who were devoted to the doctrines of Pragmatic Philosopher John Dewey. They failed to recognize that what Japan's children needed was not to learn to adjust to the shattered society around them but to be provided with a faith to replace the one Japan had lost. Simultaneously, SCAP's Information and Education Section set out to fill Japan's schools...
...only a few months old when, in 1940, its co-owners split politically for the first time. Alicia published an endorsement of Franklin Roosevelt; Harry, a deep-dyed Republican, countered with his own announcement in support of Wendell Willkie. The Guggenheims were agreed in favoring Republicans Thomas E. Dewey in 1948 and Dwight Eisenhower in 1952. And Harry good-naturedly kept his peace in 1956, when Alicia switched to Adlai Stevenson...
...every Republican Convention since 1936, Indiana Congressman Charlie Halleck has backslapped his way among the delegates, like the Hoosier horse trader that he is. In 1940 he nominated fellow Indianian Wendell Willkie for the presidency. In 1948 Halleck swung Old Guard Indiana to Internationalist Tom Dewey on the promise, he thought, of the vice-presidential nomination (California's Earl Warren got it). In 1952 Halleck's support of Dwight Eisenhower was a sharp blow to the embittered forces of Ohio's Bob Taft. In 1956 he nominated...
...dissident Democrats across the U.S., not to mention a powerful pull in New York and the other Eastern seaboard states. Last week a couple of high-level comments brought Rocky's name once more to the fore. In New York, Dick Nixon's good friend Tom Dewey warmly endorsed Rockefeller for Vice President, and at his Washington press conference, President Eisenhower added a cautious amen: "If Mr. Rockefeller were nominated, he would be one that would be acceptable to me." But Rocky coldly rejected any such suggestions. "I absolutely, under no circumstances whatsoever, would be a candidate...
...went by, my ardor was cooled by the tendency of so many of the brethren to state extreme positions in order to be noticed. A professor of mine once commented that his definition of a good religious educator was a fellow who had had a bad case of John Dewey and gotten over it. I now feel somewhat the same way about neo-orthodoxy...