Word: missourians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White House Harry Truman had enjoyed a personal popularity-it was almost indistinguishable from sympathy-that few Presidents had ever achieved. At one time this popular sympathy had been greater (according to Gallup polls) than F.D.R.'s at its highest. The plain people had cottoned to the plain Missourian who seemed so eager to admit his inadequacy, but so humbly trustful of democracy that he was willing to take on burdens and make quick decisions...
...President's press conference, newsmen were sure they noted a change in Harry Truman. For the first time in his 291 days in the White House, the even-voiced Missourian in the trim, double-breasted brown suit seemed eager to lash out at his critics...
...skipper is physically and spiritually strong. . . . Overpowering events . . . have given the grinning, gum-chewing Missourian new stature, new dignity, new confidence-but no pomp. [He] is less of an autocratic figure than any White House incumbent since Taft. There is no 'crackdown' in his system. Even those who have the hatchet out for Truman . . . acknowledge his determined honesty. . . ." There were those who sought to smear him, said Considine, but Harry Truman was a man's kind of man, as American as ham & eggs...
Industrialist. "Stu" Symington, 44, was the socialite president of St. Louis' Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co. who, as a prominent Missourian, knew Truman. So he became Surplus Property Administrator. His hands tied by red tape and a bad law, he kicked and fumed about his job, finally resigned last week when Surplus Property was turned over to the RFC's War Assets Corp. for administration...
...third transfusion was to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. As its head, the President named another onetime Missourian-Maple T. Harl, 52, now a Denver banker. Both he and Martin succeed Leo T. Crowley, who was head of both institutions until he resigned to return to private business...