Word: missourians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...piped aboard, the President wore a short-sleeved pink shirt, tan slacks and a white sulky cap. He stood on the conning tower with Skipper Casler, a fellow Missourian, while the U-2513 headed for open sea, beyond the southernmost limits of the U.S. Then, as the boat was rigged for diving, Harry Truman went below to the control room. Elevators depressed, the streamlined hull slid gently beneath the blue waters. The depth indicator showed that the President was going deeper than any of his predecessors*-200 feet, 300, 400 and finally 440. The U-boat could have gone deeper...
...Welcomed tall, sad-looking W. Averell Harriman to his Cabinet, kidded him about his favorite ball team, the Brooklyn Dodgers, losing the pennant to Missourian Truman's favorite, the St. Louis Cardinals...
...across the nation the rumble of campaigning grew. In Missouri local Democrats thundered the call to arms, whooping it up for Harry Truman, "a distinguished Missourian in the tradition of Franklin D. Roosevelt." In Ohio, senatorial candidate John Bricker returned the Republican challenge with the voice of doom: "Bring on your New Deal, Communistic and subversive groups. If we can't lick them in Ohio, America is lost anyway...
...President told his Cabinet members that his mind was made up; he told them his plan of action. He set the timing himself: he would make a nationwide broadcast to the people that night, personally take specific emergency anti-strike proposals to Congress the next day. The usually cool Missourian had his dander up. Late in the day he had a swim and his periodic physical checkup. Reported his physician: the President's blood pressure was "way up yonder...
...Unanimously confirmed Elder Statesman Bernard M. Baruch as U.S. representative on U.N.'s Atomic Energy Commission; approved (66-9) Missourian James K. Vardaman Jr.'s nomination to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors...