Word: truman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drew 50,000 of his 83,704 votes last week from former students and their families.) In 1946 Democrat Long was appointed territorial public-welfare director, and he was Acting Governor during the turbulent pineapple workers' strike of 1947 and the longshoremen's strike of 1949. President Truman appointed him tenth territorial Governor in 1951, and he held office unobtrusively until displaced by a Republican (Samuel Wilder King in 1953). Long has held office as territorial Senator since 1956. He felt so confident of his election to the Senate that he took a one-week sabbatical after...
Nyack, N.Y., Tappan Zee Playhouse: Margaret Truman stars (but does not sing) in The Happy Time...
...learned to read between the lines of inspired political stories as well. Thus, over the past few weeks, he began to feel that he was being pressured by inspired "leaks" about the future of Charles E. Bohlen, bright star State Department careerman of the Roosevelt and Truman administrations, longtime (1953-57) Ambassador to Russia, and since 1957 U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines. His friends let out word that Bohlen would soon come home from Manila to head a State Department policy-planning group dealing with Soviet problems. A later story from unnamed sources in Manila said that "Chip"' Bohlen...
...Last week the Washington Post and Times Herald drew some lively ones from old (70) Headwaiter William Reid, long the Pullman Co.'s major-domo in charge of private railway cars for the White House and State Department. Reid's bipartisan White House favorites: Harry Truman and Grace Coolidge. Of Harry: "He got up every morning at 6, and we'd stop the train so he could take his walk." Of Gourmand Warren Gamaliel Harding: "He'd eat anything." Of Calvin Coolidge: "He never used to say much, except when he read the papers...
...also makes it plain that Nixon has said no more than other politicians in the heat of a campaign. Possibly Nixon gets blamed more readily because the smooth precision of his speeches always suggests that he knows precisely what he is saying, while the snarls of a Harry Truman, for instance, are often ascribed to a sort of folksy hot temper. Yet Nixon has quite a temper of his own. Once, in a test at law school, asked a question about the President of the American Bar Association, he replied: "If he is anything like his predecessors who opposed...