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unusual facts about Dewey, Cheatem & Howe


Deweycheatumnhowe

Deweycheatumnhowe (foaled 12 April 2005) is a champion standardbred racing horse named for the fictional law firm of Dewey, Cheatem & Howe.


1st FAMAS Awards

The 1st Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Awards Night was held on July 16, 1953 in Hotel Riviera Mansion, Dewey Boulevard (now Roxas Boulevard).

40th Grey Cup

An audience of 27 391 watched as acting Canadian Prime Minister C. D. Howe opened the game with a ceremonial football kickoff, where Edmonton Mayor William Hawrelak held the ball, and Toronto Mayor Allan Lamport was watching nearby.

A.L.A. catalog

He tried to obtain suggestion from Columbia faculty members through their lectures on “bibliography and literature in their areas of expertise” when the School of Library Economy was established in 1887, and later Dewey moved to University of the State of New York in 1888, where he continued his work on catalog by asking his library employees and students in Albany to compile the catalog through scholarly journals.

Aldine Silliman Kieffer

With Ruebush and John W. Howe, Kieffer founded the Kieffer, Ruebush, & Company music company circa 1873, which was moved from Singers Glen to Dayton in 1878.

Avro Canada C102 Jetliner

C. D. Howe stepped in and offered $1.5 million to continue the project, at a slower pace.

CARtoons Magazine

Through the years, some of the featured artists were Alex Toth, Tom Medley, Mike Arens, Jim Willoughby, Russ Manning, Willie Ito, Dale Hale, George Trosley (creator of Krass & Bernie), John Kovalic, Shawn Kerri (one of the few females who drew for the magazine), Duane Bibby, Steve Austin, Dave Deal, Joe Borer, Nelson Dewey, Bob Hardin, John Larter and Dennis Ellefson.

Dan Bern

Many of these songs made the theatrical cut of the film including the Dylanesque "Royal Jelly," and the melodic "(Have You Heard the News) Dewey Cox Died." He continues to write songs for films, including Get Him to the Greek and Father's Day.

Dan Peek

He moved to England in 1963 with his family when his father was assigned to a base in London, meeting Dewey Bunnell and Gerry Beckley at London Central Elementary High School.

Daniel Williams Harmon

Harmon was born in Bennington, Vermont on February 19, 1778, son of Daniel and Lucretia (Dewey) Harmon and died April 23, 1843, in Sault-au-Récollet (Montreal North), Lower Canada.

David Howe

David J. Howe, British writer, journalist, publisher, and media historian

Dew-Dew-Dewey Day

"(What Do We Do on a) Dew-Dew-Dewey Day" was a popular song dating from 1927.

Dewey Beach, Delaware

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.

Dewey Township, Roseau County, Minnesota

Dewey is in the 7th congressional district of Minnesota and is represented by Democrat Collin Peterson.

Dewey–Stassen debate

He then connected the Communist Party of the United States directly to Moscow, and used this to defend his support of the Nixon-Mundt Bill, introduced to the Senate by Senators Karl Earl Mundt of South Dakota and Richard Nixon of California, which he believed would effectively outlaw the Communist Party.

Draft Eisenhower movement

Lodge began encouraging Eisenhower to run more than two years before the 1952 Republican National Convention, and Dewey on 15 October 1950 had announced his support for the general.

East Montlake Park

A plaque at the bottom of the totem pole states that it was carved in 1937 by John Dewey Wallace, a Haida chief, in Waterfall, Alaska.

Edward R. Dewey

Dewey first became interested in cycles while Chief Economic Analyst of the Department of Commerce in 1930 or 1931 because President Hoover wanted to know the cause of the Great Depression.

Forest Dewey Dodrill

Forest Dewey Dodrill (January 26, 1902 - June 28, 1997) born in Webster Springs, West Virginia was a doctor at Harper University Hospital at Wayne State University in Michigan who performed the first successful open heart surgery using a mechanical pump.

Fremont Rider

Grace Godfrey died in 1950 and one year later Rider married Marie Gallup Ambrose who was the daughter of Asa Oran Gallup, the Club’s manager at the time Rider was there with Melvil Dewey.

Gary L. Howe

He has contributed much of his personal work to documenting and promoting Fair Trade coffee with images from Chiapas, Mexico, Bolivia and, most recently, Rwanda.

Gaynel Hodge

Gaynel has written, recorded or performed with such artists as Lou Rawls, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson, Dr. John, Ted Taylor, Little Johnny Taylor, Richard Berry, Dick Dale, Don & Dewey, The Chambers Brothers, The Rivingtons, The Olympics, Johnny Morissette, Tony Allen, and Duane Eddy.

Getting it Wrong from the Beginning

Getting it Wrong from the Beginning: Our Progressivist Inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget is a 2002 book by Kieran Egan criticizing the traditional progressivist foundations of modern education in the Western World.

James Hayden Tufts

With John Dewey and George Herbert Mead (both of whom Tufts was instrumental in bringing to the University), Tufts was a co-founder of the Chicago School of Pragmatism.

James McGregor Stewart

He served as Coal Controller during World War II for the Wartime Prices and Trade Board (WPTB) as a dollar-a-year man but was eventually asked to resign by C.D. Howe.

James Whitcomb

Whitcomb's most unpopular act as governor was his refusal to reappoint Indiana Supreme Court Justices Sullivan and Dewey.

John F. G. Howe

After his rank as a Group Captain was made substantive, in 1973 he was appointed Officer Commanding RAF Gutersloh on the front line of the Cold War Iron Curtain operations.

John W. Hulbert

Hulbert was elected as a Federalist to the Thirteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Daniel Dewey.

Jonas H. Howe

He was a close political ally of Ignatius L. Donnelly and was active in the formation and politics of the Populist Party.

Julius Yemans Dewey

At this writing he is a popular preacher, who will always believe it was a most providential thing for our country that turned him aside from blocking the entrance of George Dewey to the Naval Academy at Annapolis.

June Bride

A line of dialogue delivered by Mary Wickes, referring to the refurbishment the old-fashioned Brinker home, a dowdy house crammed full of Victoriana kitsch, desperately needed, was filmed twice, once as "How can I convert this McKinley stinker into a Dewey modern?" and the second time with the name Truman substituted for Dewey.

KRZS

KMVA, a radio station (97.5 FM) licensed to Dewey-Humboldt, Arizona, United States, which held the call sign KRZS from 2005 to 2006

Lake Placid Conference Center

Dewey is credited with convincing the town council to rename the Lake, (and sub sequentially the town), from Lake Stearns to Lake Placid after the town of Lake Placid, New York, where his main residence was located.

Library Journal

In its early issues, Charles Cutter, creator of the Cutter Expansive Classification system, developed his ideas; R. R. Bowker discussed cataloging principles; and managing editor Melvil Dewey made recommendations for early library circulation systems.

Nathaniel L. Goldstein

The ticket proved victorious in November and both Dewey and Goldstein went on to win two more times, in 1946 and 1950.

Nicola Abbagnano

In existentialism, having freed himself from the negative implications he found in Heidegger, in Jaspers, in Sartre, in Dewey's pragmatism and in neopositivism, Abagnano saw the signs of a new philosophical trend, that he called a "New Enlightenment" in an article written in 1948.

Orion P. Howe

General Sherman wrote to Secretary of State William Stanton about Howe, and for his bravery President Abraham Lincoln appointed him to the United States Naval Academy in July 1865 because he was too young for West Point.

Richard Whitehead Young

Henry Richards was a son of Phinehas Richards and his wife Wealthy Dewey, and thus a brother of Franklin D. Richards.

Santiago Ziesmer

He has supplied his voice to a number of Disney productions, including the German dub of DuckTales as Dewey and the Winnie-the-Pooh series as Piglet, and Beauty and the Beast as LeFou.

Shen Zhurong

All modern classification schemes were based on the Dewey Decimal System, cataloging rules used the Library of Congress Classification, and the same courses taught in America were often translated directly into Chinese.

Situational theory of publics

The concepts in the theory parallel those with the Dewey and Blumer’s definition of publics.

The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America

The book begins by examining the family history and early life of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., the future U.S. Supreme Court Justice, and goes on to recount the acquaintance among Holmes, James, Peirce, Dewey and others, and how their association led to James' development of pragmatism.

The Pilgrims of Rayne

It is said that Dewey Todd went to manage a hotel in Hollywood, CA.

The Second-Richest Duck

The ducks climb a tree for protection, and Scrooge shakes Flintheart's branch trying to drop his ball (with the title of richest duck at stake, he's not so above dishonesty), although he stops when scolded by Dewey.

Three Oaks, Michigan

The Dewey Cannon, which remains on display in the park of the same name, bears the engraved monogram of Queen Isabella II of Spain.

Thug Mentality 1999

Producer = Stephen Marley, Krayzie Bone, Romeo Antonio, Michael Seifert, Damizza, T-Mix, Leiahola Jones, Nightfiend, Tombstone, Anthony President, Brainz, Alex Marlow, Erik "E" Nordquist, DJ U-Neek, Gusto "40" Moss, Tony "C", Steve Pageot, Dewey "Duke" Sanders, KayGee, Falonte Moore, Rater, DJ Nasty

United States presidential election in Vermont, 1948

Dewey did manage to win back sparsely populated Essex County, in the northeast of the state, which had defected to the Democrats and voted for Roosevelt in 1940 and 1944.

William Howe

William T. Howe (born 1835), farmer and political figure in New Brunswick, Canada


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