Word: deweyitis
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...Secretary Stettinius' insistence, scholarly, bespectacled John Foster Dulles, Tom Dewey's foreign affairs adviser in 1944, last week agreed to go to San Francisco as an adviser to the U.S. delegation...
...there were rumblings within the G.O.P.'s ranks. When New York's Governor Tom Dewey won high praise from the C.I.O. for his anti-discrimination bill (TIME, March 19) and other "liberal" measures, many a conservative Republican eyebrow was lifted. Last week Chairman Brownell appointed, as Congressional aide to the National Committee, round-faced, ex-Senator John Anthony Danaher, of Connecticut, who had been beaten last fall largely on his isolationist voting record. But John Danaher had gained the respect of Republican Senators and Congressmen, of all shades of opinion, for his legal talents and his capacity...
Thomas E. Dewey, Governor of New York and 1944 GOPresidential nominee, became a full-fledged farmer. The tenant-operator of "Dapplemere," his Pawling, N.Y. country place, sold the Governor all his stock and equipment, including 80 head of cattle...
...DARKNESS-Ellen C. Philtine-Liveright ($2.50). In New York's fictional Farland State Hospital for the insane, a young doctor and his artist wife find disillusionment in the venality of staff doctors and mistreatment of patients. Dickensian revelations that will inevitably recall the shocking conditions uncovered by Governor Dewey's investigations...
John Foster Dulles, Republican internationalist who, as Tom Dewey's representative, enabled Cordell Hull to take Dumbarton Oaks out of politics, made his principal pre-San Francisco speech in Manhattan. He demanded that the San Francisco Conference make two essential improvements on the Dumbarton Oaks plan-which he called a plan without a soul. "My first proposal," said he, "is that the organization should be infused with an ethical spirit, the spirit of justice. . . . The charter should require the new organization, as its first order of business, to undertake the difficult but essential task of developing conceptions of justice...