Evening star., 1948-06-25
increase prejudice. Gov. Dewey ap-
proved the law.
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ANhS AsSNASSes
The Ives law caused the public
utilities, insurance companies, banks
mercantile and brokerage establish.
ments to revise their employment
policies to make sure they were moi
in position of discriminating
against Jews, Negroes, Italians OF
other minority groups. 1t broke cell
ings which had prevented upgradine
of Negroes. While it has been on the
books more than two years, not one
case has yet been appealed from
the commission to the courts.
Gov. Dewey didn't have a chance
in 1914. Right after the Nationa,
conventions came the breakthrougt
in Normandy. The magnificent mill
tary successes made criticism of the
Administration seem picayune. Pres
ident Roosevelt guaged the situation
correctly in opening his campaign by
bringing up the story that he hao
forgotten his Scottie, Fala, in the
Aleutians and sent a destroyer tc
retrieve him. Il am accustomed tc
hear malicious falsehoods about my
self but I think I have a right
to object to libelous statements
about my dog"
But Gov. Dewey made good cam
paign. As in New York his argument
was not against the legislation his
Democratic predecessors had passed
but against their ineficiency in ad-
ministering it. His appeal was 81
can do it better"
The beginnings of the hoped-fol
world order we're being planned at
Dumbarton Oaks during the cam
paign. Gov. Dewey began to pre-.
dict in his speeches that the re-
sulting plan would give world DOM
nance to the big Four"
Rocking the Boat.
This was rocking the boat reck-
lessly and dangerously. Cordell
Hull, then Secretary of State, be-
came very disturbed and invited
Gov. Dewey to confer with the
American planners on just what
they were trying to do. Instead
Gov. Dewey sent John Foster
Dulles, the distinguished New York
attorney who had continued an in
terest in foreign affairs since serv-
ing with the treaty makers at Yer
sailles.
Mr.. Dulles conference with Secre-
tray Hull was the beginning of the
bipartisan foreign policy. 1t was
not until the following January
that Senator Vandenberg was con-
verted from isolationism to an in.
ternational point of view.
Gov. Dewey carried only 10 States
Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas
Maine. Nebraska. North Dakota
Ohio, South Dakota, Vermont, Wis
consin and Wyoming. But he ad-
vanced the party's percentage from
it's previous lows by getting $4,000
900 votes to President Roosevelt's
100000.
Known to America.
That campaign made Gov Dewey
known to America. Campaign bi-
ographies told how he was born on
March "a, 1902-"the first presi-
Dental nominee born in this CEN
tury"-over q general store in
Owosso, Mich, on the banks of the
Sniawassee River. The store be-
longed to his maternal grandfather
Alfred Thomas. His father, editor
of a country weekly, was as
sistant State auditor at Lansing
and his grandfather, George M
Dewey, who had studied at Harvard
had been a delegate to the 1854
Jackson, Mich. convention at which
the Republican Party was formed
His greatest ambition would have
been filled to overfloWing if only hall
of those who have heard him talk
had heard him sing. When he grad
uated from college at the University
of Michigan, he had a scholarship
for vocal study at the Chicago Musi-
cal College. There he met Frances
Hutt, from Oklahoma, a great-grand-
niece of Jefferson Davis. He later
married her. His voice teacher
Percy Rector Stephens, decided to
return to New York. Miss HUT
who was Mr.. Stephens secretary
was going, too. That decided young
Dewey. He went to New York also
to study voice with Mr.. Stephens and
law at Columbia University.
Second Break in Career.
The second break in his career was
when he was 81 and assistant to the
United States attorney for the
Southern district of New York
which includes Manhattan Island
He was a Republican appointee. The
year was 1888 and the New Deal had
just started. But Tammany Hal
was. out of favor with the Roosevelt
administration and there was nc
agreement on Democrat to heao
the Office. Instead, the judges oi
the court appointed Mr.. Dewey te
serve until there was a presidential.
appointment.
That interim appointment came
when he was prosecuting Waxey