Word: deweyitis
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Last week as the black-tied diners talked of politics in the President's gleaming white study, Manhattan Lawyer Tom Dewey seemed to be presenting arguments on both sides of the case. Dewey dwelt at length on reasons why the President should seek reelection. His arguments were easily boiled down: the party, the country and the world need Ike. But when he turned to his other favorite topic, Citizen Dewey could not refrain from describing the pleasures of a man who chooses not to run again. Since he stepped out of the governor's office in Albany...
...reporters well knew, bosh is neither no nor yes. They probed on. Wasn't it true that Tom Dewey had urged him to run again? Well, he had read in the paper that Dewey did a lot of urging. But Dewey had described the joys of private life in terms that certainly seemed to commend...
...Appleby (ex-Under Secretary of Agriculture), with whom he once served in Washington. He has some immediate problems, notably a $75 million rise in state operating costs, which might require an increase in state income taxes. Basically, he inherited an exceedingly sound administration from retiring Republican Governor Thomas E. Dewey. When Dewey left Albany, after twelve years in office, there was a leak...
...moot question whether education is purely intellectual, since Plate, and the greatest of our educational leaders have not thought so, but have put it added. "Finally how can one seriously in a moral and social context," Ulich call John Dewey's philosophy "a philosophy of barbarism," even if one is, as I am, highly critical...
Died. Annie Thomas Dewey, 77, mother of New York's Governor Thomas Dewey (an only child), widow of George Martin Dewey Jr., Owosso postmaster and publisher of the Owosso Times; of a heart attack; in Owosso, Mich...