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...There 62-year-old Tammany Leader Jimmy Hines, a New Deal patronage dispenser in Manhattan, was on trial for serving as prop and protection dispenser for Harlem's $20,000,000-a-year numbers racket (TIME, Aug. 29)* There, too, 37-year-old Republican District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey was on trial for his political life...
...That Dr. Dewey's influence has also made for a certain fuzziness in academic thought was once more made evident last week when a group of his foremost followers, the three-year-old John Dewey Society, issued a yearbook...
...John Dewey, the good grey philosopher, has spent his life exploring endless variations on a single theme: experience is the best teacher. Because he hitched William James's pragmatism to Education and insisted that Education must make sense to modern society, John Dewey has exerted a great influence on 20th-century U. S. pedagogy. But he has lived to be 79 and "America's Greatest Philosopher" without ever explaining how Education can make sense when a society does...
...book was written by ten famed Deweyite educators, among them Professors Harold Rugg and George S. Counts and Professor-Emeritus William H. Kilpatrick of Dewey's Columbia's Teachers College. Examining contemporary society, Dr. Dewey's followers conclude that: 1) a world-wide struggle is being fought beween democracy and dictatorship; 2) the U. S. is a "depressed society" and will probably continue so for many years; 3) rascism is rising in the U. S.; 4) not much time remains to do anything about...
...Dewey, joined Marshall Field at the bottom in 1922. That his rise in Marshall Field is likely to continue appeared last week as President Corley released the company's annual report. Though the retail division's profit was down from $5,029,090 in 1937 to $3,940,099, Mr. McBain's manufacturing division came back from 1937's $5,679,209 loss to net a cozy $138,165. Even the real-estate division, only one still headed by a McKinsey man, showed a profit...