Word: truman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years in the presidency, Harry S. Truman, onetime Field Artillery captain, had twice reviewed units of both the Navy and the Air Force. But the Army, he jokingly concluded, remained "rather timid, and remembering that I was a battery commander, has always felt a little backward about asking me to look at a review ..." Finally he picked up his telephone and told Secretary of the Army Gordon Gray that he wanted to watch the ground forces do their stuff...
Though he is not as much of a baseball fan as Mrs. Truman-who went to New York to watch the World Series-he watched the Yankee-Dodger games in the afternoon either on the twelve-inch television screen in the Oval Room or at Blair House. He cleaned up pressing business, solemnly signing the $1,314,010,000 European arms bill and the $5,809,990,000 foreign economic aid bill. Then, at week's end, he set out for Charlottesville, Va. by automobile to spend two days with his poker-party friend, Stanley Woodward, the State Department...
President Truman rushed to the defense of his nominee with a sharp letter to Subcommittee Chairman Ed Johnson of Colorado. "The powerful corporations subject to regulation by the commission," wrote the President, "have not been pleased with Mr. Olds." Colorado's tart old Democrat Johnson replied that subcommittee members were "shocked beyond description" by what Olds had once written. He had to admit that Olds as a witness was "very convincing. Like many crusaders for foreign ideologies, he has an attractive personality and is disarming to a very high degree...
President Truman's Point Four program for developing backward nations has been discussed at high policy levels for months. But it was not till last week that two congressional committees brought the talk down to earth. From spokesmen for U.S. business, which was expected to supply the know-how and capital for the program, the committees got some plain talk on what was needed to make the program work...
...their strike 77 days, just three short of the cooling-off period provided for under the national emergency clause of T-II. The special presidential board was exactly the same as that provided for under the law--and was equally unable to make a binding report. Since President Truman is unlikely to use the injunction (the unions feel that their voluntary delays would make it grossly unfair, and Truman probably agrees), the issue would seem to turn on internal political developments...