Charles Ammi Cutter ( 1837 – 1903 ), inspired by the decimal classification of his contemporary Melvil Dewey, and with Dewey's initial encouragement, developed his own classification scheme for the Winchester Town Library and then the Boston Athenaeum, at which he served as librarian for twenty-four years.

He firmly declined all of the offers and many believed he was foregoing his only opportunity to be president ; Thomas E. Dewey was considered the other probable winner, would presumably serve two terms, and Eisenhower, at age 66 in 1956, would then be too old.

The earlier editions were printed in the peculiar spelling that Dewey had devised: the number of volumes in each edition increased to two, then three and now four.

Whereas Parker started with practice and then moved to theory, Dewey began with hypotheses and then devised methods and curricula to test them.

As 1944 began the frontrunners for the Republican nomination appeared to be Wendell Willkie, the party's 1940 candidate, Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, the leader of the party's conservatives, New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the leader of the party's powerful, moderate eastern establishment, General Douglas MacArthur, then serving as an Allied commander in the Pacific theater of the war, and former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen, then serving as a U. S. naval officer in the Pacific.

Dewey first served as a federal prosecutor, then started a lucrative private practice on Wall Street ; however, he left his practice for an appointment as special prosecutor to look into corruption in New York City — with the official title of Chief Assistant U. S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

Dewey then made Bricker ( who was supported by Taft ) his running mate.

In 1966, they got their own title, Huey, Dewey, and Louie and the Junior Woodchucks, published by Gold Key Comics for 62 issues, and then continued by Whitman Comics for another 20 issues until 1983.

After discovery of gold on Lynx Creek in the spring of 1863, the Dewey area was settled around the summer 1863 by pioneer prospector, rancher and Indian-fighter King Woolsey ( 1832 – 1879 ), who founded the Agua Fria Ranch, then better known as " Woolsey Valley ," to supply the miners.

The border then takes a right on Western Avenue to the Governor Thomas E. Dewey Thruway ( Interstate 87 ) and goes north to the Albany city line.

Melvil Dewey, who invented the Dewey Decimal System, designed what was then called " Placid Park Club " in 1895 and inspired the village to change its name to Lake Placid, which became an incorporated village in 1900.

By then the work on the " Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology " ( 1902 ) had been announced and a period of intense philosophical correspondence ensued with the contributors to the project: William James, John Dewey, Charles Sanders Peirce, Josiah Royce, George Edward Moore, Bernard Bosanquet, James McKeen Cattell, Edward B. Titchener, Hugo Münsterberg, Christine Ladd-Franklin, Adolf Meyer, George Stout, Franklin Henry Giddings, Edward Bagnall Poulton and others.

It was then that the band was officially named " Boston ," by suggestion of Boylan and engineer Warren Dewey.

After serving about a year as an attorney for a Wall Street law office, he became an assistant district attorney in 1938 and was appointed by then District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey to a sixty-man task force aimed at routing out New York City's organized crime.

Dewey began studying law in 1833, first with his father, then with the law firm Hanen & Davies, then with Samuel S. Bowne in Cooperstown, New York.

In 1899 she cataloged the collection according to the then new Dewey Decimal system.

It flows through the Dolores River Canyon, then cuts across Paradox Valley before receiving the San Miguel River ( incidentally, both the Dolores and the San Miguel have their headwaters to either side of Lizard Head Pass ) in Montrose County and crossing into Utah, where it joins the Colorado in Grand County near the former Dewey Bridge.

Dewey, then seventy-eight years old, agreed to head its Commission of Inquiry.

Some ten years later, the Dewey Commission was cited in great detail, when in an open letter to the British press dated 25 February 1946, written by George Orwell and signed by Arthur Koestler, C. E. M. Joad, Frank Horrabin, George Padmore, Julian Symons, H. G. Wells, F. A. Ridley, C. A. Smith and John Baird, among others, it was suggested that the Nuremberg Trials then underway were an invaluable opportunity for establishing " historical truth and bearing upon the political integrity " of figures of international standing.

White's presence at Port Hudson is supported by a secondhand account of a postwar dinner conversation he had with Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota, a Union veteran of Port Hudson, and another recounted by Admiral George Dewey ( then a Federal naval officer at Port Hudson ), in both of which White mentioned his presence during the siege.

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.

Dewey also played a major role that year in convincing Eisenhower to keep Nixon as his running mate ; Eisenhower had considered dropping Nixon from the Republican ticket and picking someone he felt would be less partisan and controversial.

A year later, Candy played the lovable, mild-mannered Army recruit Dewey Oxberger in 1981's Stripes, one of the most successful films of the year.

Drummer Dewey Martin, who had played with garage rock group the Standells and country artists such as Patsy Cline and The Dillards, was added to the roster less than a week later after contacting the group at the suggestion of the Byrds ' manager, Jim Dickson.

* Dewey Martin, who played, among others, in Howard Hawks films of the 1950s.

Koivu played in the first line with Jere Lehtinen and Ville Peltonen ( the " Huey, Dewey, and Louie " line ), who were all selected as tournament all-stars.

* In the 2007 comedy film Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, McCartney ( played by Jack Black ) and Lennon ( played by Paul Rudd ) are arguing, and Lennon quips, " I wonder if your songs will still be shit when I'm sixty-four.

Dwight Michael Evans ( born November 3, 1951 ), nicknamed Dewey, is an American former professional baseball right fielder and right-handed batter who played with the Boston Red Sox ( 1972 – 90 ) and Baltimore Orioles ( 1991 ) in Major League Baseball.

His brothers Lucious Selmon and Dewey also were All-American defensive linemen for Oklahoma, and played on the same defensive line together in 1973.

Three days later, popular Memphis DJ Dewey Phillips played " That's All Right " on his Red, Hot, and Blue show.

On July 7, 1954, Dewey Phillips played " That's All Right " on his popular radio show " Red, Hot & Blue ".

Interest in the record was so intense that Dewey reportedly played the record 14 times and received over 40 telephone calls.

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 2001, Sanderson played a courageous bartender named Dewey in the TNT film Crossfire Trail.

He played the outlaw Billy John in Ride Lonesome ( 1959 ), Dr. Ben Mizer in the 1966 comedy Three on a Couch, the cross-dressing Dewey Barksdale in the 1976 drama Ode to Billy Joe, and the gunfighter Drew in Firecreek ( 1968 ), with James Stewart and Henry Fonda.

John Dewey ( 1859-1952 ) had a major influence on the development of progressive education in the United States.

In his advocacy of democracy, Dewey considered two fundamental elements — schools and civil society — as being major topics needing attention and reconstruction to encourage experimental intelligence and plurality.

During that time Dewey also initiated the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, where he was able to actualize the pedagogical beliefs that provided material for his first major work on education, The School and Social Progress ( 1899 ).

While each of these works focuses on one particular philosophical theme, Dewey included his major themes in most of what he published.

Stassen stunned Dewey and MacArthur in the Wisconsin primary ; Stassen's surprise victory virtually eliminated General MacArthur, whose supporters had made a major effort on his behalf.

Republicans figured that all they had to do to win was to avoid making any major mistakes, and as such Dewey did not take any risks.

This strategy proved to be a major mistake, as it allowed Truman to repeatedly criticize and ridicule Dewey, while Dewey never answered any of Truman's criticisms.

Dewey did not run for President in 1952, but he did play a major role in securing the Republican nomination for General Dwight Eisenhower.

Dewey also had a hand in creating the first major professional publication for librarians: The American Library Journal, which was intended to assist librarians in their daily work.

Cassville never became the major city that Dewey had envisioned.

Mead is a major American philosopher by virtue of being, along with John Dewey, Charles Peirce and William James, one of the founders of pragmatism.

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.

One indication of the extent of his fame: " Anyone wanting to see the major stars of New York ’ s Yiddish stage on Thanksgiving weekend in 1913 had three choices: Mendel Beilis at Jacob Adler ’ s Dewey Theater, Mendel Beilis at Boris Thomashefsky ’ s National Theater, or Mendel Beilis at David Kessler ’ s Second Avenue Theater .”

For example, a major section of the building is the " Books Spiral ," ( designed to display the library's nonfiction collection without breaking up the Dewey Decimal System classification onto different floors or sections ).

The hotel boasts a unique organizing principle: each of its ten guest floors has a theme, designated after a major category of the Dewey Decimal Classification ( the 5th floor, for example, is the 500s, the Sciences ), with each room as a subcategory or genre, such as Mathematics ( Room 500. 001 ) or Botany ( Room 500. 004 ).

The second major significant change happened between 1939-1941 when a large underground parking garage was built under the square that relocated the plaza's lawns, shrubs and the Dewey monument to the garage " roof.

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.