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Last year's lectures were devoted to Woodrow Wilson's career as a political and world leader. Past lecturers include Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, John Foster Dulles, Henry L. Stimson, Thomas E. Dewey, and George F. Kennan...
FEDERAL SPENDING will jump $2 billion to $3 billion next year, says Grover Ensley, executive director of joint economic committee of Congress, but there still will be budget surplus of $4 billion for 1957. Predicts Ensley: gross national product of $430 billion to $440 billion, prices up 2% to 3%, business investment up 8% to 10%, housing starts down...
...farms, Illinois Secretary of State, 1914-1916), and a wealth of family pride. Great-grandfather Jesse Fell was a close friend of Lincoln's, suggested the Lincoln- Douglas debates, worked for Lincoln's presidential campaign. Adlai's Democratic paternal grandfather and namesake was Vice President in Grover Cleveland's second Administration, and the old campaign posters still decorate Adlai's den in Libertyville. Adlai's birth naturally prompted his Grandfather William O. Davis (a Republican) to pronounce himself delighted at the "launching of this little presidential craft...
...with thick glasses, sharp nose, a cocky grin and a jutting jaw appears on the television screen. At that moment Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the U.S.-the ranking elder statesman (he hates the words) in a party that has not had an active ex-President around since Grover Cleveland-will begin to give 'em hell. Truman's aim: to send his party into the 1956 campaign with the lusty, brawling, they-can't-beat-us sort of Democracy that Truman himself represents...
Between the Eyes. Missouri's Truman was born and bred in the Democratic whirl. One of his treasured memories is the scene of his father raising the American flag over the house in Independence to celebrate the election of Grover Cleveland in 1892; Fighting Democrat John Truman vowed to keep Old Glory flying for as long as a Democrat was in the White House (as it happened, four years...