Word: deweyitis
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...that the ADA should be the whipping boy of Republican orators is inevitable. The extreme wing of a party always catches the abuse of the opposition. Thomas E. Dewey of New York had to explain away the support of Gerald L. K. Smith every election for ten years. Stevenson campaigned against the mid-western, not the eastern Republicans, as did Churchill against Bevan, William Jennings Bryan against Wall Street, and Jackson against Nicholas Biddle...
...nominate Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York ... He is the most able man in public life today. C. DON SUTTON Des Moines
...education teacher . . . has the lowest contempt for any one who dares speak against her educational doctrines as set down by Dewey and other education philosophers -"the curriculum doctors" ... I agree with Mr. Bestor. The stress [in modern education] is too much on how and not why. Before I even took an education course'. . . I was all prepared to enjoy myself teaching the young boys and girls ... to ... raise them to an esthetic level in life, but now I am actually terrified to open a schoolroom window until I have been told in a textbook . . . how high it should...
...other intra-party. With Ike's legislative program begged down and dissatisfaction evident in organized labor and agriculture, GOP popularity was waning. The accusations of laxity were aimed at cutting the Roperrating of the Democrats, he believes. And since Eisenhower isn't expected to seek reelection, the "Brownell-Dewey Republicans are fighting the McCarthy Tribune Neanderthalers" for party leadership. "McCarthy's recent attack on the Administration shows he is aware of this technique...
...face of this challenge, Tom Dewey laid down an ultimatum: if Wicks did not resign before adjournment, Dewey would call the legislature back into special session and start impeachment proceedings. At this, Wicks gave in, although still claiming that his honor stood undimmed. He was resigning, he said, because "I was going on vacation and I felt I didn't want to have the responsibilities of the offices . . ." Said Dewey: ". . . I asked Senator Wicks to resign. He has now done so, and the resignation speaks for itself...