Word: deweyitis
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...Eisenhower has adopted the mistaken standard of taking a Colonel and promoting him to a General," Mark DeWolfe Howe '28, professor of Law, pointed out. "He can't do anything to anger the Democrats, so he will have to pass over such top men as Dewey and Dulles...
Until last week, the two candidates for governor of New York, Irving M. Ives and W. Averell Harriman, were waging dull and gentlemanly campaigns, avoiding sensationalism. Last week New York's cold campaign suddenly got hot. After a two-hour session with the master strategist, Thomas E. Dewey. Senator Ives dramatically broke off his upstate speaking tour and roared down to Manhattan for a television and radio broadcast advertised as the first of a series of "shocking" blockbusters revealing some awful truths about Harriman...
Blockbuster No. 2. Three nights later, Tom Dewey dropped a second and more explosive bombshell. In 1925, he charged, Harriman had made a $2,000,000 loan to a company that operated a zinc mine in Polish Silesia. When the loan turned sour, Harriman and some banking associates formed a new company, issuing $15 million in bonds to operate the mine. "Before long, the company started losing money. Then came the war, and the mines were finally nationalized, and Harriman's great promotion, the Silesian American Corp., went into the hands of the bankruptcy court." The result, added Dewey...
...Communists are not the only ones who try to put it in reverse. Riesman is annoyed at those who pick up his biting criticism of progressive schools as they are today and use it to attack Philosopher John Dewey and the whole movement of progressive education-which in Dewey's time, Riesman believes, was a liberating force working against the main lines of a culture where character was inner-directed. Educational reactionaries who want to go back to the little red schoolhouse have set themselves an impossible task. They cannot return to inner-direction because the U.S. cannot return...
...Mayor Robert Wagner recently ordered the city's lawyers to get injunctions banning the worst books under the state's obscenity laws. But many a community has already learned that comic books cannot be easily legislated off the newsstands. Five years ago New York's Governor Dewey vetoed a bill banning them on the ground that it was unconstitutional. Los Angeles County passed a similar law, only to have it knocked out by the courts. Nevertheless, in Oklahoma City, the city council recently passed an ordinance banning crime and horror comics. Some council members opposed the ordinance...