Word: deweyitis
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Damage Repaired. Kiplinger's energetic coverage of the news has not always brought the rewards he expected. The day after Harry Truman's victory in the 1948 election, Kip's Changing Times was in the mail with a cover story entitled "What Will Dewey Do?" and blaring its "beat" in full-page ads (TIME, Nov. 8, 1948 et seq.). This massive blooper sent the circulation of all the Kiplinger publications plummeting. With characteristic candor, Kip admitted that "I made the mistake." With equally characteristic vigor (staffers estimate that he works as much as 70 or 80 hours...
...million hydroelectric plant to harness the Niagara River (TIME, June 16, 1952). But getting permission to go ahead was as grueling as negotiating the falls in a barrel. Public-power interests, which want federal agencies to do the job, blocked them; New York's Governor Thomas Dewey insisted that Niagara development ought to be a state responsibility...
...above), believes that U.S. educators and other intellectuals are a potent force in U.S. politics. Says the mayor: "Fortunately, free compulsory education works for the liberals . . . Big business has not yet taken over American education. Adlai Stevenson has more supporters among the schoolteachers and college professors than Tom Dewey. It is significant that what used to be called 'history' is now 'social studies.' Spiritually and economically, youth is conditioned to respond to a liberal program of orderly policing of our society by government, subject to the popular will, in the interests of social justice...
...doesn't represent his full conviction. In 1936, when the mercurial P-D decided to support Alf Landon, Fitz a resolute F.D.R. man, served notice that he would draw no political cartoons, and drew none. He also stayed away from politics in 1948, when the P-D backed Dewey, but he was hand in hand with the paper again in supporting Stevenson in 1952. His own favorite cartoons are chiefly political. Among them (see cuts): a powerful warning in 1935 of the Nazis' designs on Europe ("This Is the House That Diplomacy Built"); a spoof of the British...
...Governors Dewey & Lausche...