Dewey

[ doo-ee, dyoo-ee ]

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George, 1837–1917, U.S. admiral: defeated Spanish fleet in Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War.
John, 1859–1952, U.S. philosopher and educator.
Mel·vil [mel, -vil], Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey, 1851–1931, U.S. educator, administrator, and innovator in the field of library science.
Thomas E(dmund), 1902–71, U.S. lawyer and political leader.
a male given name, form of David.

Dewey

/ ˈdjuːɪ /

DeweyJohn18591952MUSPHILOSOPHY: philosopherEDUCATION: educator John. 1859–1952, US pragmatist philosopher and educator: an exponent of progressivism in education, he formulated an instrumentalist theory of learning through experience. His works include The School and Society (1899), Democracy and Education (1916), and Logic: the Theory of Inquiry (1938)

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Of the four Republican presidential nominees from 1948 to 1968, only two were “next in line”—Thomas Dewey and Richard Nixon.

Meanwhile, the from-the-left insurgency of former Vice President Henry Wallace tipped New York to Dewey and the Republicans.

The New York law was intended to bite - and Dewey plainly intended to make his law an issue in the presidential election of 1948.

William Howard Taft; 2, Thomas Dewey (1944 and 48, moustache) and Charles Evans Hughes (1916, beard).

Dewey was ready to fight with ships, but he did not want to fight with forts, so he waited for darkness to come before going in.

Then Dewey thought it was time to give his men a rest and let them have some breakfast, so he steamed away.

Some shots were fired back, but in a few minutes it was all over and Dewey's squadron was safe in Manila Bay.

Before that very few had heard of George Dewey; now he was looked on as one of our greatest naval heroes.

"Dewey on the bridge," with shot and shell screaming about him, was as fine a figure as "Farragut in the shrouds" had once been.

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