Word: deweyitis
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Nevertheless, most women said their politics were liberal, although somewhat apolitical. 1948 had been the year Dewey, the Harvard-Radcliffe favorite, lost to Truman. It was a time when Harvard President James Bryant Conant and General Dwight D. Eisenhower were actively denouncing communists, saying they should not be permitted to teach...
...tough, scrupulously honest "Mr. District Attorney" for 32 years; following a stroke and surgery for lung cancer; in Manhattan. Born to Irish immigrant parents. Hogan worked his way through Columbia University law school arid in 1935 joined the staff of New York City's special prosecutor Thomas Dewey in an antimob crusade that resulted in the conviction of racketeer "Lucky" Luciano. When Dewey became D.A. of New York County, Hogan stayed on as his assistant, stepping up when Dewey quit in 1941. Though modest and low-keyed in public, Hogan brought to trial an impressive gallery of offenders including...
Back in 1970, few Oklahomans gave Democrat David Hall much chance to win the state's gubernatorial race. He had failed in the primary four years earlier, and his opponent this time, Republican Incumbent Dewey F. Bartlett, was a millionaire in his own right and well financed by oil interests. Yet Hall persisted, showing the same determination that got him through the University of Tulsa law school (he drove a Pepsi truck), and then saw him become Tulsa County's chief prosecutor...
...freelance writer in Europe before joining the staff of the New York Amsterdam News and then the New York Post, where his byline appeared for 33 years. His first big stories were exclusive interviews with Governor Huey Long of Louisiana and Wendell Willkie; other assignments included Thomas E. Dewey's raids on the Harlem numbers rackets and numerous reports on civil rights confrontations in the Deep South...
...DEWEY YODER...