Word: deweyitis
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...Harriman overhaul Stevenson for the Democratic nomination? How, if nominated, could he have a prayer against Dwight Eisenhower? For his answers, De Sapio can only draw on his rugged New York political schooling. In discussing the national situation, he likes to dwell on his experiences with Republican Tom Dewey (De Sapio insists that Dewey, not Candidate Irving Ives, was the real loser in the 1954 gubernatorial election...
...that the Eisenhower myth of invincibility in the White House is comparable to the Dewey myth of invincibility in Albany," says De Sapio. "I may be wrong. These are my ideas. I have discussed them hardly at all with leaders from any other state. But my experience beating Dewey here leads me to believe that the situations are closer than people think...
...Waterfront: "Good little action picture, but why it got the Academy Award I will never know."-E. M. F., Dewey, Okla...
...Association met with his vice president and solemnly recommended that the P.E.A. disband. In itsheyday in the '50's, it had been a powerful influence on U.S. public education, the standard-bearer for the child-centered school, the soapbox and sounding board for the ideas of John Dewey and his followers. But now, plagued by lack of money and members-as well as by changing educational fashions-the P.E.A. was in effect admitting that, though the nation had gratefully accepted much of what the progressives preached, it had apparently also decided that enough is enough...
Down with Dewey...