* Sarah Lawrence College-a private, independent, co-educational liberal arts college founded on the principles of John Dewey.

Taylor, elected president at age 30, maintained a friendship with educational philosopher John Dewey, and worked to employ the Dewey method at Sarah Lawrence.

74 ( January – June 1923 ) Conrad Aiken, Sherwood Anderson, Malcolm Cowley, e. e. cummings, Stuart Davis, John Dewey, Gerhart Hauptmann, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Marie Laurencin, D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann, Katherine Mansfield, Frans Masereel, Henry McBride, George Moore, Marianne Moore, Raymond Mortimer, Pablo Picasso, Ezra Pound, Paul Rosenfeld, Henri Rousseau, Edmund Wilson, William Butler Yeats, Stefan Zweig

As with several Durham geologists before him, notably Lawrence Wager, Dewey was appointed Professor of Geology at the University of Oxford ( and Fellow of University College ) in 1986, a position he held until his resignation in 2000.

* Thomas E. Dewey, lawyer, author, mob-busting District Attorney of New York City, three term Governor of New York ( 1942, 1946, 1950 ), and the Republican presidential nominee in 1944 and 1948.

He received Oscar nominations for his portrayals of evangelical preacher Euliss " Sonny " Dewey in The Apostle ( 1997 ) — a film he also wrote and directed — and lawyer Jerome Facher in A Civil Action ( 1998 ).

* January 31-Charles Dewey Day, lawyer, judge and politician ( b. 1806 )

* May 6-Charles Dewey Day, lawyer, judge and politician ( d. 1884 )

Ebenezer Dewey was a lawyer, and wished for his son to join the same profession.

He was also a practicing lawyer, working at the law firm of Dewey Ballantine in New York City before joining the fictional Gage Whitney Pace, reputedly the second biggest law firm in New York City.

A variation of this joke was used on 30 Rock when Alec Baldwin's character Jack Donaghy tells Tina Fey's Liz Lemon that Tracy Jordan's lawyer Steven ( played by Wayne Brady ) works for the firm " Dewey, Cheatem, and Livingston.

In the fourth season of Gilmore Girls (" The Lorelai's First Day at Yale "), in order to placate a lawyer, Luke Danes claims his legal representation as " Don Dewey of ' Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe '"

1953 • New York State Governor Thomas E. Dewey, and the state legislature formed the temporary Tweed Commission ( named after its chair, lawyer Harrison Tweed ) to conduct public and private hearings regarding the post-World War II court situation ; such as overall caseload volumes that had grown to the point where court delay was becoming a major problem and procedural reform was necessary.

The main lobby entrance featured a, Venetian glass mosaic mural overhead, depicting major figures from the history of science such as Marie Curie and Charles Darwin under the protective hands of a God-like figure representing knowledge, with this quote from John Dewey: " Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

Dewey Lewis Hill ( born August 31, 1925, in Whiteville, North Carolina ) is a Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's 20th House district, including constituents in Brunswick and Columbus counties.

Lieutenant Colonel C. A. Whittier, United States Volunteers, representing General Merritt, and Lieutenant Brumby, U. S. Navy, representing Admiral Dewey, were sent ashore to communicate with the Captain-General.

The Democratic Party candidate, Roosevelt, is depicted as a then-modern streamlined steam locomotive, the Win the War Special, pulling a high-speed freight train of war materiel, whereas his Republican opponent Thomas E. Dewey is depicted as an old creaky steam locomotive, the Defeatist Limited ( numbered 1929 as a nod to the 1929 stock market crash ) pulling cars variously representing hot air, high prices, taxes, business as usual ( a sleeper car ), poor housing for war workers, and finally a caboose named " Jim Crow.

* May 23 – Dewey, the first deer cloned by scientists at Texas A & M University, is born.

The Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad opened a line from Stevens, Kansas to Dewey, Oklahoma in 1901-2 and another line from Hominy, Oklahoma to Bartlesville in 1903-4.

The first newspaper in town, the Dewey Eagle, began publication in 1900, and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad came to Dewey in 1903.

Allred felt particularly vindicated when FDR won Texas with some 75 percent of the ballots cast in his easy race against the Republican nominee, Thomas E. Dewey, and the Old Regulars, who did not specify what presidential candidate their slate would support if it had been victorious.

In 1899, Dewey was elected president of the American Psychological Association.

The American Library Association was formed, as well as The American Library Journal, Melvil Dewey published his decimal based system of classification, and the United States Bureau of Education published its report, " Public libraries in the United States of America ; their history, condition, and management.

Putnam ’ s activities with the American Library Association led him to join with Justin Winsor and Melvil Dewey as official delegates to the International Conference of Librarians in London in 1897 When Winsor died shortly thereafter, Putnam served the remainder of his term as President of the ALA.

In 1936 Dewey received The Hundred Year Association of New York's Gold Medal Award " in recognition of outstanding contributions to the City of New York ".

In 2005, the New York City Bar Association named an award after Dewey.

Dewey and Johnson were founding members of the Progressive Education Association.

As part of his contributions to librarianship, Dewey, along with Justin Winsor, founded the creation of the American Library Association ( ALA ).

A Southern California Automobile Association map, believed to be circa 1910-1930, shows a business named " Dewey Store " in Cameron Corners.

This was a time in history when Andrew Carnegie was building libraries across the nation and Melvil Dewey created the Dewey Decimal System and founded the American Library Association.

His outspoken opposition to aiding the Allied forces earned him strong criticism from many liberal Republicans, such as Wendell Willkie and Thomas E. Dewey, who felt that America could best protect itself by fully supporting the British and their allies.

Due to this opposition, the southern end of the Central Artery through the South Station area was built underground, through what became known as the Dewey Square Tunnel.

I never met John Dewey, whose style was a sort of verbal fog and who had written asking me to go to Mexico with him when he was investigating the cause of Trotsky ; ;

According to Don Rosa, Huey, Dewey and Louie became members of the Junior Woodchucks when they were around 11 years old.

It wasn't until the 1980s when it became established that Huey is dressed in red, Dewey in blue, and Louie in green.

The second heaviest losses were during the U. S. Army's final offensive of the war, operation Dewey Canyon II ( Dewey Canyon II was an operation in support of the ARVN Lam San 719 Operation, in which the code 719 meant the year 1971 along Route 9 ), when the cavalry's remaining Sheridan Squadrons met near disaster on the Lao border during the early months of 1971, in particular the 1st Squadron of the 1st Cavalry Regt.

The key moments came when the delegations of large states such as Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New York left Dewey and Vandenberg and switched to Willkie, giving him the victory on the sixth ballot.

Dewey, who had been the Republican nominee in 1944, was regarded as the frontrunner when the primaries began.

Dewey rocketed to fame in 1935, when he was appointed special prosecutor in New York County ( Manhattan ) by Governor Herbert H. Lehman.

Dewey played a key role in convincing Eisenhower to run against Taft, and when Eisenhower became a candidate Dewey used his powerful political machine to win Eisenhower the support of delegates in New York and elsewhere.

In 1956, when Eisenhower mulled not running for a second term, he suggested Dewey as his choice as successor, but party leaders made it plain that they would not entrust the nomination to Dewey yet again, and ultimately Eisenhower decided to run for re-election.

During the 1944 election campaign, Dewey suffered an unexpected blow when a remark attributed to socialite Alice Roosevelt Longworth ( daughter of Theodore Roosevelt ) mocked Dewey as " the little man on the wedding cake " ( alluding to his neat mustache and dapper dress ).

Even at the end of the story when Scrooge has won and Flintheart passes out after finding he is only second best, he has to be carried home by Huey, Louie and Dewey since he has no one else there to help him.

Scrooge first met the modern Beagle Boys during Christmas 1947, which was when he first met his grandnephews Huey, Dewey and Louie and met his nephew Donald for the second time.

Clifford was a key architect of Truman's campaign in 1948, when Truman pulled off a stunning upset victory over Republican nominee Thomas Dewey.

In addition to Donald's voice, Nash also voiced Daisy Duck ( in her earliest appearances, when she was little more than a female version of Donald ), as well as Donald's nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie.

Twelve years later, his organization had its moment of greatest ignominy, when it predicted that Thomas Dewey would defeat Harry S. Truman in the 1948 election, by five to fifteen percentage points.

Dirksen garnered attention at the convention when he gave a speech attacking New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, a liberal Republican and the leading supporter of Taft's opponent for the Republican presidential nomination, General Dwight Eisenhower.

It is believed that the name was changed to Dewey Beach following the 1898 Battle of Manilla ( Spanish American War ) when Admiral George Dewey became a national hero.

* Music In the Park is a free concert series held at 7 pm every Saturday during the summer ( with the exception of Flag Day when it's held at 6: 30pm ) in Dewey Cannon Park, downtown Three Oaks.

A historical marker at Dewey Cannon Park in Three Oaks relates: " This cannon, captured in the Spanish-American War by Admiral Dewey, was presented to Three Oaks when its citizens raised fourteen hundred dollars for a memorial to the men of the battleship Maine.