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Married. Thomas E. Dewey Jr., 26, member of the New York investment banking firm Kuhn, Loeb & Co., son of onetime (1942-54) New York Governor and twice-defeated Republican Presidential Candidate Tom Dewey; and Ann Reynolds Lawler, 22, daughter of an attorney; in Scarborough...
...John Dewey hadn't existed, he would have had to be invented...
...State (Harvard University; $3.50), is the history of a highly significant development -the transformation of the U.S. high school from 1905 to 1930. Those who thunder that Cicero molded young minds at the turn of the century are right. But Cicero's assassin was not John Dewey alone. It was a combination of child-labor laws, compulsory school attendance, the growing need for vocational training, and the Depression, which sent jobless teenagers scurrying to school for shelter. In 1910 thousands of 15-year-olds had full-time jobs; in 1930 about 90% were in school. Result: an entirely different...
...professor who once took a proprietary interest in high school standards. When professors took a good look at the proletarianized high school, they left it to what they considered a lowbrow technician-the education professor. And to figure out how to run the schools, the "educationists" seized upon Philosopher Dewey's innocent theory that children learn best by being interested instead of disciplined. It fitted the educationists problems, muses Conant, "as a key fits a lock...
Japanese trade interests in the U.S. will be represented by Thomas E. Dewey's law firm under a one-year $100,000 contract signed last week. Dewey is expected to help fight moves to curb Japanese imports...