Word: deweyitis
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Most noted of the charges of Communism--at which Shapley scoffed, "Of course not!"--came from Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, who denounced the conference as "an elaborate effort to disguise a Communist propaganda effort...
Ryan dumped $500,000 into something he called the National Foundation for Good Government. It would scotch corruption not only in New York but elsewhere. He railed at Governor Tom Dewey for not investigating Mayor Bill O'Dwyer's administration. He trotted down to City Hall with ten questions for O'Dwyer. Their substance: Is Slot Machine Tycoon Frankie Costello the real boss of New York City...
...worker." Says she solemnly: "The entertaining I do is my way of serving the President and the party." But Perle has made the Democratic Party her party only since 1942, when she walked out on the Republicans because of their treatment of Willkie ("They rushed me in to see Dewey, but they couldn't budge...
...grandson of a college president (Alexis Caswell of Brown) and the son of another (James Burrill Angell of the University of Michigan), James Angell had spent his whole life on campuses. He had been a pupil of John Dewey at Michigan, a student of William James at Harvard, finally joined the faculty of the University of Chicago. He became one of the top psychologists in the U.S., known in the academic world as the "creator of psychologists...
...Anthropology Club chose Alice Dewey '50, president; Florence Bobleter '51, vice-president; and Carolyn McTear '50, secretary-treasurer...