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Princeton University's graduating class of '54, in the annual poll to determine future superlatives, waggishly voted as "least likely to succeed," the school's history-drenched Nassau Hall, gave No. 2 place to Thomas E. Dewey Jr., 21, son of New York's governor...
...said, Nixon made no direct comment. But the meeting's whole tone was anti-McCarthy. The Vice President said that the Administration, through Attorney General Herbert Brownell and FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover, are "smashing the Communist conspiracy to bits." When New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey praised Nixon as a Communist fighter "who got results, not just headlines," applause swelled through the ballroom...
...Served at the suggestion of Dairy Farmer Thomas E. Dewey as part of his campaign to help dairy farmers...
Practical Politics. In Elba, Ala., Farmer Dewey Adams broke into a polling place where votes cast in a local primary were being counted, chased away election officials with an ax, set fire to 95 ballots, after his arrest explained: "I didn't like the way the election was being...
Louis Calhern and Walter Pidgeon do most of the slowpoke moralizing. The action is in the capable hands of Frank Lovejoy, Keenan Wynn, Van Johnson and Newcomer Dewey Martin. Wynn is excellent as a retread veteran who wants to come out of the war with honor, but alive, and is therefore fated for an early death -shown in an appalling sequence, taken from official Government film, of the crash of a plane on a flight deck...