Word: deweyitis
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Governor Thomas Dewey, who got his flying start in politics as an investigator, is now in the embarrassing position of seeing some of his closest political friends caught in a Dewey-ordered investigation. Last week another chapter in New York's harness-racing scandal disclosed that some of the most highly placed Republicans in the state had made fantastic profits from the racket-ridden $272 million-a-year New York trotting tracks...
Sprague's Daughter. J. Russel Sprague, G.O.P. boss of Nassau County and longtime Dewey lieutenant, resigned from the Republican National Committee last fall when he was identified as an owner of stock in Yonkers Raceway. Last week Sprague testified that he still owns a large block of Yonkers stock and has netted $64,000 from holdings in Roosevelt Raceway in his own Nassau County. Race-Track Counsel George Morton Levy added that in 1946 Levy had bought $2,500 worth of Roosevelt stock for Sprague's daughter; this was listed in Levy's name "so that people...
...President has been getting some bad advice from his staff, bad that is if he is sincerely concerned with putting through his program, rather than with partisan politics. His advisory staff is dominated by the Dewey-Brownell wing of the party which, while touted as the "liberal" wing, has in recent months not lived up to this expectation. Such men as Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams and Brownell have seemingly convinced the President that McCarthy is too valuable an asset to the Republican party, particularly in light of the coming November Congressional elections, for Eisenhower to risk a split with...
...have been guided by spies and paid agents of foreign capitalist-imperialist reactionary forces. (Indictment of L. P. Beria and associated traitors of the motherland.) American policies, so we learn from recent investigations, have been determined by Soviet Agents who have "permitted t make policy for this country." (Governor Dewey of New York...
White is a graduate of CCNY and he received his Ph.D. at Columbia University. He was appointed an assistant professor in 1948 and was made a full professor during the past year. His publications include a volume on the background of John Dewey's instrumentalism and a book entitled "Social Thought in America." He has contributed articles to various journals and magazines on logic, ethics, and related subjects...