Word: strictness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman is a man of distinct limitations, especially in experience in high-level politics. He knows his limitations. He is frank with himself and his friends in visualizing himself as the ordinary, honest politician grown to stature through patience, hard work and luck. He believes in strict party responsibility, a politician's reward for work done, and complete loyalty to friends. (He never forsook Tom Pendergast, even after Boss Tom had gone to Leavenworth.) He is no theorist. In his Administration there are likely to be few innovations and little experimentation...
...left the U.S. people waiting for a more detailed picture of official U.S. policy. Last week, although there was still no detailed statement of policy, they got a strong hint that Franklin Roosevelt was minded to go along with the Russians and, presumably, the British, in demanding a strict accounting for German destruction in Europe...
Isador Lubin, who recently toured occupied areas in Germany, was known to favor a strict settlement by which Germany would pay heavily in raw materials and even food...
Thanks to Burking, which got the public dander up more than simple grave-robbing had done, laws were passed in the 18305, allowing doctors to dissect unclaimed bodies. Today British and U.S. laws provide for such dissection under certain strict rules: e.g., after dissection, a medical school must give the remains a decent, religious burial...
Army discipline, though it varies slightly with individual camp commanders (colonels and lieutenant colonels), is generally strict and according to Geneva Convention rules. The Army's chief concern is to give the enemy no excuse for retaliatory mistreatment of Americans in prison camps overseas...