Word: grandview
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House came the President's 92-year-old mother, Mrs. Martha Truman, and his 55-year-old sister, Miss Mary Truman. Harry Truman had sent the big presidential transport plane (which carried Franklin Roosevelt to & from his transatlantic conferences), his naval aide and a Secret Service man to Grandview, near Kansas City, to bring Mrs. Truman to Washington for Mother...
...suite atop Kansas City's Hotel Muehlebach, Harry S. Truman heard the big news. He had spent a middling busy day. In the morning, he and his pleasant-faced wife drove from Kansas City to Independence (pop: 16,066) to vote. Then the Trumans drove to nearby Grandview, shepherded the Senator's 91-year-old mother to the polling booth. In the evening, he gathered with old friends in his hotel suite, joked: "Everybody around here is nervous...
...volumes on the Civil War, of which he has devoured thousands. His specialty: the Battle of Chancellorsville. He married his boyhood sweetheart, Bess Wallace, whom he met in Sunday School when he was seven and she six. He is still a member of the First Baptist Church of Grandview. Mo., although he says he has never been "a very active churchgoer." The Christian Century called him "a religious man." For a while he skipped around on the fringes of Dr. Frank Buchman's Moral Re-Armament movement...
...Trumans. A member of the Grandview (Mo.) Baptist Church since his youth, Candidate Truman was once interested enough in Buchmanism to speak twice at Oxford Group meetings. He now disclaims any interest in the Oxford Group, has never met Founder Frank Buchman. Truman jokes that he always seems to get back in the old parish "about the time they are raising money." But Pastor E. W. Bowman says the Senator is a generous contributor. Although last week's Christian Century called Truman "a religious man," the Senator confesses that he has "never been a very active churchgoer." Last Sunday...
...Brickers. Candidate Bricker was brought up as a Congregationalist, his wife as an Episcopalian. For the past twelve years they have been active members of the First Community Church (with members representing 27 sects) in Grandview Heights, a Columbus suburb. They attend services faithfully, have refused a regular pew, sometimes perch on chairs in the adjoining gymnasium when the church auditorium is crowded. The Governor has been a member of the Board of Deacons and the Board of Trustees, and an usher. Mrs. Bricker is active in the Women's Guild, has also been chairman of the Weekday School...