Word: deweyitis
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Political advertising caused a little flurry in the fall of '44, when the Harvard Conservative League inserted an ad telling people to "Vote For Dewey." The name "Dewey" referred to the moustached man now serving as governor of New York State and then a Republican candidate for President. The Navy demanded that all its papers be picked up and taken out of circulation...
...Crimson is sending down mile and two mile relay teams at well in hurdler Dewey Hickman. Hickman will be competing against a field of a dozen or dozen and a half top hurdlers in the country...
...Dewey Hickman equaled the 7.3 seconds facility record in the 60 vard hurdles for the second meet in a row. Paul Sabia and Charlie Valentine took second and third places for the Huskies...
...living, for blocking low-rent housing, for failing to vote grain-storage bins. "Give 'em hell, Harry!" the crowds cried. The Democratic left had deserted to the third-party candidate, Henry Wallace, the South to Strom Thurmond's States' Rights party. Republican Candidate Thomas E. Dewey was calm, self-confident, and spent much of his time discussing his future Cabinet. Not until midmorning on the day after election did an amazed nation learn that Truman had scored the greatest upset in U.S. electoral history...
That envoi was typical of the man who once told a friend, "I've had a wonderful week; I've had a fight every day." Born to poverty in Brooklyn, educated under John Dewey at Columbia, Hook was one of the first college teachers to give an analytic course on Marxism, and his left-wing activities duly brought demands for his dismissal. Over the years he wrote and edited some 35 books (The Hero in History, Education for Modern Man), and he always relished a good argument-particularly an argument against dogmatism or dictatorship. In the mid-1930s...