Thomas E. Dewey

Examples of Thomas E. Dewey in the following topics:

• The Year the Polls Elected Dewey

  • Truman, the Democratic nominee, successfully ran for election against Thomas E.
  • Dewey, the Republican nominee.
  • The Gallup, Roper, and Crossley polls all predicted a Dewey win.
  • Truman beat Republican challenger and Governor of New York Thomas E.
  • Dewey.

• The Election of 1948

  • Despite predictions that Republican candidate Thomas Dewey would win the 1948 election, incumbent Democrat Harry Truman won.
  • Roosevelt in 1945, successfully ran for election for a full term against Thomas E.
  • Dewey, the Republican nominee.
  • On September 9, nearly two months before election day, pollster Elmo Roper announced that "Thomas E.
  • Republican Thomas Dewey ran against President Harry Truman in the 1948 presidential election.

• Wartime Politics and the 1944 Election

  • His Republican opponent in 1944 was New York Governor Thomas E.
  • Dewey.
  • Dewey ran an energetic campaign, but as expected, Roosevelt prevailed.
  • In the election on November 7, 1944, Roosevelt scored a fairly comfortable victory over Dewey.
  • FDR defeated Thomas Dewey, Governor of Roosevelt's home state of New York, in the election of 1944.

• Roosevelt's Fourth Term

  • His Republican opponent was New York Governor Thomas E.
  • Dewey.
  • Dewey ran an energetic campaign, but as expected, Roosevelt prevailed.
  • Roosevelt and Truman won by a comfortable margin, defeating Dewey and his running mate John W.

• Finding Materials in a Library

  • Physical materials (e.g., books, manuscripts, CDs) are categorized by a series of numbers and letters.
  • The main systems of classification are the Dewey Decimal Classification, the Library of Congress Classification, and the Colon Classification.
  • Though most public libraries use the Dewey Decimal Classification, all of the systems work in essentially the same way.
  • The first numbers will be the broad subject (e.g., 300 is economics), the following numbers correspond to a subcategory (e.g., .94 is European economy) and so on.
  • To use the library's digital materials, such as e-books or subscription-based databases, you need to use one of the library's computers.

• References

  • Bredo, E. (1994).
  • E. (1997).
  • Lave, J., & Wenger, E. (1991).
  • Misleading Dewey: Reform, projects, and the language game.
  • E. (1994).

• The Gallup Organization

  • Notable exceptions include the 1948 Thomas Dewey-Harry S.
  • Truman election, where nearly all pollsters predicted a Dewey victory.

• Educational Reform in the U.S.

  • In the United States, for example, democratic education was promoted by Thomas Jefferson, who advocated ambitious reforms for public schooling in Virginia.
  • John Dewey suggested that effective education poses problems and puzzles that motivate children to learn.
  • For example, E.D.
  • Rather than reforming the educational process, they focus on the effects that process achieves by measuring outcomes (e.g., student achievement).

• The Gallup Poll

  • From 1936 to 2008, Gallup correctly predicted the winner of each election--with the notable exceptions of the 1948 Thomas Dewey-Harry S.
  • Truman election, when nearly all pollsters predicted a Dewey victory, and the 1976 election, when they inaccurately projected a slim victory by Gerald Ford over Jimmy Carter.

• The Election of 1952

  • When the 1952 Republican National Convention opened in Chicago, Eisenhower's managers, led by Thomas Dewey and Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., accused Taft's leaders of unfairly denying delegate spots to Eisenhower supporters.
  • Lodge and Dewey proposed to evict the pro-Taft delegates in these states and replace them with pro-Eisenhower delegates.