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...page, eventually took over the legislative beat. In 1924 she moved to Washington as public-relations director for the League of Women Voters, became so involved and well known in political circles that ultimately she took charge of press relations for Mrs. Wendell Willkie, Mrs. Thomas E. Dewey (twice) and Mamie Eisenhower during their husbands' presidential campaigns...
...received from Schultz. Even when Dutch was bumped off in Newark by a rival mob, Jimmy's power was such that he continued to operate his special political services for Schultz's successors. Then, in 1937, a prosecutor named Thomas E. Dewey rounded up three talkative Schultz mobsters. With their testimony, Tom Dewey nailed Hines on 13 counts involving him with the numbers racketeers...
Seatless Schools. In actual fact, Golden's Israelite does not appeal predominantly to Jews, Northerners or radicals, but to readers with such varied views as Harry Truman and Chief Justice Earl Warren, Adlai Stevenson and Thomas Dewey. Golden has no room for news stories, pictures or headline type. Instead, he fills the 16-page paper with witty, erudite discourse on subjects ranging from Dr. Johnson's recipe for oysters (baked in a flour-and-water batter) to Cato's hangover cure (raw cabbage leaves...
Perry was placed by Aiken on equal footing with John Dewey as "the most important American liberal philosophers," in spite of their differences and Dewey's comparatively greater popularity...
...Doughnut Method. The operation (which, with variations, had been duplicated almost simultaneously in Boston and in Britain) "suddenly became too popular and was being done in practically every country hospital," says Bailey. In 1953 Detroit Surgeon Forest Dewey Dodrill convinced Bailey that his operation was still not good enough, and Bailey worked out improvements that are now widely used...