Word: deweyitis
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Taking a Fling. That job began in 1943, when newly elected Governor Tom Dewey, looking around for an able newsman to serve as his press secretary, picked Jim Hagerty. Against the wishes of his father, who knew young Jim was crossing the fence from the working press, Hagerty accepted. Says he: "I thought I'd take a fling at it." Confident young Governor Dewey's press relations were atrocious at the time, and Jim Hagerty shared with most of the Albany press a marked coolness toward his new boss. He gradually came to like and respect Dewey, although...
...about running a tram than most railroad presidents, writhe in professional pain. The Willkie train often pulled out of wayside stations with reporters still standing on the tracks, and Wendell Willkie, thinking they were voters, waved farewell from the rear platform. When Jim Hagerty was press secretary to Tom Dewey a few years later, an officious Dewey aide ordered a train to move out while eight reporters were still rushing to clamber aboard. Hagerty dashed up ahead of the train, planted his foot on the track, forcing the engineer to stop. "They yelled like hell," recalls Hagerty. "But I knew...
...William James Lectures are given every second year under the auspices of the Department of Philosophy or the Department of Psychology. Earlier James Lecturers have included John Dewey, Bertrand Russell, and J. Robert Oppenheimer...
...despite the clubs, Sam Yorty was the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate. Congressman Yorty was a professional, a mustached Democratic Dewey who fought no-holds-barred and never heard of amateur idealism. Liberals were treated to a campaign in which both candidates accused each other of being soft on subversives. Yorty lost to Thomas Kuchel by half a million votes...
...when other Gannett papers (nearly all in solid Republican territory) supported Tom Dewey for President, Gannett's Independent Democratic Hartford (Conn.) Times (circ. 120,182) backed Truman; in 1952, when Gannett backed Taft, the Times and most other papers in the group boomed Eisenhower. His Independent Republican Binghamton (N.Y.) Press (circ. 64,562), one of the best small-city newspapers in the U.S., has lately made a habit of supporting Democrats for mayor. During a state election campaign in which several of his papers had gone counter to Gannett's publicly expressed views, F.E.G., as he was called...