Word: deweyitis
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Part of Tom Dewey's campaign strategy will be a sustained attack on the Administration. He began the attack this week at a point where the Administration is particularly vulnerable-its policy in Asia. Speaking in his most vehement public prosecutor style at a Columbia University Law School dinner, he charged the Administration with failure in China, where "Communist world conquest is furthest advanced." Said Dewey...
Then Stassen turned his attention to Tom Dewey, who so far has even declined to admit that he is a candidate. Stassen had already taken one crack at Dewey. "There is nothing in America's political history," he had said, "to recommend an evasive policy, followed at an eleventh hour by a 'me too' answer...
...Dewey did grapple with one issue this week. He also continued to take trips. Last week, he added to the list of things he admired: the wintry hills of Vermont and New Hampshire; the old Dewey family home in Lebanon, N.H., now occupied by Farmer Daniel E. Lahaye; Mrs. Lahaye's range; the Lahayes' year-old daughter ("She's as cute as a bug"); and the snow-covered New Hampshire cemetery where the Dewey ancestors are buried. "Old cemeteries fascinate me," he said...
...Dewey was in New Hampshire for the dignified purpose of boosting a money-raising campaign for a crippled children's hospital...
...Ohio State University. Wherever he went, his agonizing doubts shadowed him. Though not by temperament a rebel ("I tried to be a good boy"), he could find no authority for moral standards in traditional creeds or dogmas. In desperation, he turned to the works of William James and Dewey, first to criticize, then to be converted...