Word: deweyitis
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More than Durkin. There was more than objection to Durkin behind the statement. Bob Taft was miffed because 1) so many "Dewey Republicans" had advised Ike on appointments, 2) so many Taft Cabinet recommendations had been rejected and 3) the selection of his fellow Ohioan George Humphrey for Secretary of the Treasury had not been checked with him. When Taft's words hit the press wires, political reporters leaped to conclusions: the big battle in the Republican Party was on, Taft might lead a fight against confirmation of Durkin. This view was based on an underestimation of the power...
...important Americans made important contributions to their fellow citizens' understanding of the world. The late Senator Arthur Vandenberg's Private Papers described the growth of a good mind from narrow isolationism to a sharp sense of world responsibility. In Journey to the Far Pacific, Governor Tom Dewey brought back a comprehensive and surprisingly readable account of Asia's problems...
Miller, author of "The Transcendentalists" and two books on New England thought, was given a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1936. He teaches Humanities III besides his courses in American literature. White, who gives the second half of Humanities 5 and three courses in Philosophy, is the author of "Origins of Dewey's Instrumentalism...
...Deputy Attorney General: William P. Rogers, 39, New York and Washington lawyer and wartime Navy lieut. commander, who began his career as a prosecutor under Tom Dewey, then New York County district attorney. Appointed counsel to the Senate's War Investigating Committee (once headed by Harry Truman) during the Republican 80th Congress, Rogers earned such a reputation for fairness and competence that the Democrats kept him on after they won back control of Congress in 1948. His first political job: helping his boss-to-be, Herb Brownell, present the Eisenhower case on the contested Southern delegations at the Chicago...
...Presidential Press Secretary: James C. Hagerty, 43, onetime reporter for the New York Times, where his 76-year-old father, James A., is still a top political writer. Young Jim became Tom Dewey's press secretary in 1943, has served on loan to Ike since before the 1952 convention. Most newsmen agree that he lives up to his avowed intention "to give reporters the same treatment that I expected when I was a reporter...