The Pittsburgh Press (April 2, 1944)
Dewey approves bills to aid needy, aged
Albany, New York (UP) – (April 1)
Governor Thomas E. Dewey, approving 14 bills designed to broaden benefits to the needy and the aged, said tonight that “unlike the statism which dominates totalitarian philosophies, we recognize that the state is but an instrument and a creature of its own people.”
Mr. Dewey said:
That instrument is justified so long as it serves the people well.