Word: davids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...DAVID LIPTON...
...kind of weekend the President loved. That afternoon there was a picnic for Bess Truman's mother, Mrs. David W. Wallace; the next day a formal birthday dinner in her honor. Harry Truman got a rare opportunity to drive his own car when he went over to visit his mother again, accompanied only by a secret service agent...
...Gang. Harry Truman's gang is large, loose-knit, amiable and loyal. Some members, like Judge Samuel Rosenman, serve only part time. Others serve as specialists, like David K. Niles, a New-Dealing Bostonian inherited from F.D.R., who advises on problems of minority groups (currently, U.S. Zionists). At least one, Major General Harry Vaughan, holds a kind of honorary membership. Vaughan, who once burbled from the pulpit of an Alexandria, Va. church "I don't know why a minister can't be a regular guy," has one quality which endears him to the President: he is what...
...Contempt & Loathing." In Jerusalem, where the final death toll in the terrorist-wrecked King David Hotel had reached 91, barbed-wire barricades bristled in the streets. Lieut. General Sir Evelyn Barker had issued instructions to British troops to boycott Jewish homes and stores: "Without the support, actual or passive, of the Jewish public, the terrorist gangs . . . would soon be unearthed, and in this measure the Jews in the country are accomplices and bear a share of the guilt. I am determined that they shall. . . be made aware of the contempt and loathing with which we regard their conduct. . . . The troops...
What such a clamor on the part of the veteran for more money would mean in terms of feeding the inflation bonfire was demonstrated on the floor of the Senate last week. Senator David I. Walsh, his eye on the November election, proposed a raise in the allotment from 65 dollars to 90, and from 90 to 115 dollars. On the basis of the 1,700,000 veterans now in college or on-the-job training, such a boost would cost the Federal Government an extra half a billion dollars annually...