Word: truman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...barrage of political questions at Harry Truman's weekly press conference was interrupted by NBC's Earl Godwin. "Mr. President," he began, "I have a question which is obviously planted." Harry Truman laughed at the frank admission and told him to go ahead. Godwin explained that he had two friends in the theater business and they thought there was a great revival in vaudeville-which meant re-employment for a lot of people. "That is a planted question," said Godwin, "so please say something nice about...
...weeks of preparing a political barbecue pit for Harry Vaughan, the Senate subcommittee investigating five-percenters made no secret of its intentions-it was going to spit him, spin him over the fires of righteousness until sin dripped out of him like gravy, and lug him back to President Truman looking like a huge shish kebab. While no formal announcement was made, G.O.P. members implied that church bells would be rung, cannon fired, and flags run up on public buildings as soon as he was cooked...
...Truman Democrats by his blunt attacks on the socialistic tendencies of the Fair Deal. He stood for a conservative-liberal philosophy which could support certain federal grants for social welfare, but opposed any further spread of federal power or of the welfare state. On these issues the G.O.P. had a case to make, and in the Senate Ohio's Taft made it. His fellow Ohioan, Clarence Brown, called him "Mr. Republican." To Big Labor and the Truman Democrats he was both a leading Republican and an uncompromising obstacle in their paths: they were determined to knock...
...sunset Tito caught his first fish, which was soon followed by a second. In 90 minutes he caught seven. "Who is the best fisherman," he inquired gaily, "me or President Truman...
Only ten years ago, he said, when the national income was $70 billion, people thought it fantastic to talk of its ever reaching $125 billion. "Now it has exceeded $200 billion. I don't think President Truman's goal of a $300 billion national income is fantastic at all, provided we maintain the American system about the way it is today. If we get farther over on the side of a planned economy, or socialism, I don't think...