Word: deweyitis
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...dean has also been criticized for his role in the arrest of two blacks accused of murder. Corde has been called a racist, a traitor to his home town and a fool. His boss is miffed at the publicity caused by his magazine piece, and his boyhood friend Dewey Spangler, now a famous columnist and "princely communicator," complains that Corde put too much poetry into Chicago...
Unfortunately there is no room in the Dewey decimal system for New Haven bars, and Victor is for once left dumbfounded by your rather simple query. But meeting him has not been totally useless, for Victor sheds some light on an equally important question. That steeple you noticed on a hill about two miles away from main campus belongs to Albert Magnus, a Catholic women's college which is described by Victor, who has never been there as a silly little school...
Mark Hatfield, 59, Republican Senator from Oregon, predicting the course of interest rates for the rest of the year: "We'll see them down three to four points. But I should add that I predicted Thomas Dewey's election...
President Ferdinand E. Marcos has ruled the Philippines since 1965, including eight years of martial law that ended only in January. Standing essentially unopposed for re-election in June, he won handily with 88% of the vote. But Marcos may face his greatest threat because of Dewey Dee, a textile magnate who fled the country eight months ago and left behind more than $80 million in debts. The incident threw Philippine financial institutions into turmoil and exposed as seldom before the cronyism and corruption that has characterized the Marcos government's relationship with business...
...wife, founder of the Malibu colony, half-baked advocate of Freud, Dewey and Marx, full-time heckler of B.P. as too trusting, too irresponsible, likely to come to a bad end. "I've decided not to depend on Father-for anything," she told Budd as her marriage wound down. "In all these years he has practically nothing to show for the millions he's earned . . . he lives in that dream world of his, with people like . . . the Sidney woman telling him how great he is." The solution: Ad became one of Hollywood's top agents, a status...