Word: deweyitis
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...haired Dr. John T. Sheppard, Provost of King's College, had given the G.I. College its name. Noting that most of the G.I.s had been quartered in the famed old Bull Hotel, because Cambridge's colleges were overcrowded he told the students and U.S. Army Major George Dewey Blank, their boss: "As the word 'Hotel' sounds so very undignified, I just call you simply 'Bull College.' And you, Major Blank, I refer to as the 'Big Bull...
Those who will be available from last year's team are Bill McDaniel at end, Chet Pierce and John Coan at tackle, Ned Dewey and Frank LeBart at guard, and Pete Harwood, Chuck Roach, Bill Jackson, Tom Tennant, Ken O'Donnell, Leo Flynn, and Bill Meilke in the backfield...
Last week New York (which has no state university) decided to go into the business on a jerry-built, short-term basis. Governor Thomas E. Dewey summoned educators from the 85 New York universities and colleges. Said he: "Let's get them in this year even though you will have to sacrifice some of your standards." The educators agreed as "a last resort" to sponsor an emergency two-year college for 12,000 ex-G.I.s at Sampson Naval Base near Geneva. Six upstate colleges will help supply about 1,000 faculty members; the state will...
Died. George Zerdin Medalie, 62, shorttime associate judge of New York State's Court of Appeals, longtime twister of the Tammany Tiger's tail; after a heart attack; in Albany. In 1933, Medalie passed on to Protégé Thomas E. Dewey the U.S. attorneyship that put him on the high road to racket-busting fame and national political significance...
...News hewed to the Democratic-but not the New Deal-line, backed only two Republicans (McKinley and Dewey) for President. It fought the isolationists of both World Wars...