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Your publication of John Dewey's photograph with the caption "More dangerous than Hitler?" is an example of cheap journalism ... It is Adler and his allies who are the real Hitlers amongst us. For they are scholastic formalists who are positive that they and they alone know all the answers . . . and since they are incapable of doubt, they are plotting in the most insidious ways to force their interpretation of right & wrong down the throats of the people...
...there still time for a renaissance of learning in the U.S., or have we "progressed" with Dewey too far into the educational dark ages? If so, our educators can doubtless console themselves with the thought that advanced bead-stringing will prove functional in a society of cave dwellers...
...little suspected the amazing contribution he is and has been making to the improvement of mankind until I read your article . . . Pragmatism has never been or intended to be the philosophical panacea for the world's ills and weaknesses. Peirce and James never so intended it. Nor Dewey, as far as that goes. At least not during his most creative period. In its proper philosophical fields-politics, education, sociology-pragmatism served (and is still serving) a useful purpose...
...Acting Mayor Joseph V. McKee of New York polled 232,501 write-in votes after a vigorous press campaign against Tammany Hall. But Tammanyite John P. O'Brien was elected with 1,056,115 votes. In 1944, Tom Dewey received 146,706 write-ins in the Pennsylvania presidential primary, after a long, well-organized campaign in a primary with no names printed on the ballot...
...Wisconsin record: In 1940, Arthur Vandenberg's candidacy faded after Tom Dewey beat him 2-1. In 1944, Wendell Willkie withdrew as a candidate after he ran behind Dewey, Stassen and General MacArthur. In 1948, MacArthur's Stock as a candidate fell after Stassen beat...