Word: deweyitis
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Shearing the Lamb. Breezy Bill Rogers, the son of an upstate New York paper-mill worker, washed dishes through Colgate, took his law at Cornell, became at 23 a member of New York District Attorney Tom Dewey's clean-sweeping staff, sometimes presented as many as 40 minor cases a day. After a World War II stint in the Navy he got the job of chief counsel to the U.S. Senate Investigations Subcommittee, then headed by Michigan Republican Homer Ferguson. As a result of his committee work, Army General Benny Meyers was packed off to jail...
Pitzele was President Eisenhower's labor adviser in the 1952 campaign. He also advised Thomas E. Dewey when the former New York governor sought the presidency...
...associate), gets four or five hours sleep a night, manages at best two weekends out of three with his wife Janet and his son Charles Casey, 12, at his 280-acre farm at Pawling, N.Y., close by the estates of his occasional golfing friends, Lowell Thomas and Thomas E. Dewey...
...Guilford County, twelve miles south of Greensboro. He was the youngest of Ethel and Roscoe Murrow's three boys. The eldest, Lacy, rose to be an Air Force brigadier general in the 18th Tactical Air Command, and is now a transportation consultant in Washington. The other, Dewey, is a contractor in Spokane. "I had one pair of shoes a year," says Ed Murrow. "I can't remember when I didn't have to work...
...Both scurried to sign up for Communist-line outfits, e.g., American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born. American Peace Mobilization, National Council of Arts, Sciences and Professions. He led a Communist-backed protest march (on the train) from New York City to Albany (1947) to urge Govenor Dewey to freeze rent controls in New York. Both were heady for Wallace for President. 'Both broadened their contacts with Communists (she felt, it was suggested, that she had to seek and find discipline; he just tagged along), joined up as spies in the Soviet embassy's net, soon...