Word: deweyitis
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Tokyo announced that Wall Street Lawyer Thomas E. Dewey will be retained for a year to help Japan boost its exports and ride herd on Japan's commercial interests in the U.S. Fee (including Dewey's anticipated expense account): $200,000. But someone had goofed. Next day, after Dewey's office issued a firm "no comment," Japan's government allowed that the deal is not sealed as yet. Premature publicity may have doomed...
...York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey appointed Dulles to a U.S. Senate vacancy, and four months later, after a crossroads campaign to win and hold the seat, the Wall Street lawyer was roundly defeated by Democratic ex-Governor Herbert Lehman. An early supporter of Eisenhower over conservative Republican Robert Taft, he helped write the foreign-policy plank for the 1952 G.O.P. platform. President-elect Eisenhower put him at the top of the list of choices for Secretary of State, a position he would also have achieved if either Republican candidate, Dewey or Taft, had become President...
...large, our teachers are paid what they are worth. [The late Philosopher John] Dewey is God, the National Education Association is his prophet, and all the teachers colleges are his disciples. This philosophy has been broadcast throughout our land for 40 years. It takes just about 30 or 40 years to change an educational system. We live in an era when it is very easy to get food and clothing. They come to us almost naturally. And so we believe that things of the mind can come that easily, too. This is where we fall down. This is the most...
...from a buyer or stockholder." PERCY'S dedication to responsibility also includes broadening the intellectual horizons of Bell & Howell exec- utives. They are treated to monthly skull sessions with such world-minded figures as Henry Cabot Lodge and Paul Hoffman, get free volumes of Plato, Rousseau and John Dewey, are encouraged to take part in public affairs...
...seven leading Democratic presidential hopefuls-Adlai Stevenson, Hubert Humphrey, Lyndon Johnson, Robert Meyner, John Kennedy, Stuart Symington and Pat Brown-and all autographed the same copy. Carter also has signed covers from Vice President Nixon and Nelson Rockefeller. Among others in his autographed collection: Harry Truman and Thomas E. Dewey (both on the same 1948 pre-Election Day issue), John Foster Dulles, Chiang Kaishek, Toscanini, Nehru, the Duke of Windsor and the Morocco Riff leader, Abd el Krim...