Word: truman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Truman's loyalty program will also be considered this term. Just one day, after the nine justices went home last spring, the District Court in Washington upheld an investigating board in its dismissal of James Bruno from the Post Office Department when he failed to pass a loyalty test...
Although he agrees with President Truman's call for renewed U. S. efforts for international control, Meyer said that atomic control is too ineffective to be our only hope for maintaining peace...
...failure of the British action will depend on the United States. The fundamental cause of Britain's and Europe's dollar deficits "lies in our short-run economic instability and our long run tendency to outstrip others in production." The remedy here, Professor Williams feels, may be President Truman's "Point Four" plan to build up undeveloped regions through export of American technology and skill. "And we must preserve stability at home if we really want to achieve a world balance by some other means than the expenditure of our own taxpayers' money...
...Fleet Streeter, who made the obvious crack: "Now they've devalued the atom.") The New York Post Home News omitted the usual front-page baseball scores, solemnly explained later: "Fateful as the Yankee defeat . . . might prove, we felt the juxtaposition of this news with President Truman's disclosure . . . might have been viewed as savage satire." Next day, many editorials were so determinedly unexcited (the San Francisco Chronicle: "Inevitable As Tomorrow") that they succeeded only in being determinedly dull...
...readers that Colonel McCormick was already building a bombshelter for himself and his staffers. The New York Daily News wrote the day's most heartfelt headline, a prayerful play on words: U.S. HAS SUPREMACY, WILL HOLD IT : AMEN. The Communist Worker combined propaganda, craftsmanship and a sly smile: TRUMAN: U.S.S.R. HAS IT; VISHINSKY...