Word: truman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pennsylvania (74): A big 60 for Stevenson, with 14 to follow the lead, if indicated, of Harry S. Truman...
...candidate himself pounded away during the week at his favorite argument: no "moderate" should head the Democratic ticket; only a thoroughgoing, yard-wide New Dealer has a chance to beat Dwight Eisenhower. And only Harriman stands "for the principles of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, the only principles which will win in this campaign." (Retorted Stevenson, with an assenting nod from Eleanor Roosevelt: "I protest Mr. Harriman's claim that he has any exclusive rights to those principles...
...odds are long that he will be a man of moderation. But a moment of rare drama will come when the face of a man with thick glasses, sharp nose, a cocky grin and a jutting jaw appears on the television screen. At that moment Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the U.S.-the ranking elder statesman (he hates the words) in a party that has not had an active ex-President around since Grover Cleveland-will begin to give 'em hell. Truman's aim: to send his party into the 1956 campaign with the lusty, brawling, they...
...Harry Truman will never have seen anything quite like the 1956 convention, which should bug even Chicago's convention-jaded eyes. Into the city, beginning late this week, will stream up to 20,000 conventiongoers, led by 2,477 delegates and 1,850 alternates, to jam hotels and motels for 50 miles around. A fantastic corps of 4,000 reporters, pundits, photographers, radio and television performers, spielsmen and technicians (almost double the number in 1952) will swarm around Chicago's International Amphitheatre employing 400 veteran telegraphers to transmit 600,000 words an hour, sending photo plates whirlybirding from...
...over. (To keep up the TV pace, delegations that ask to be polled will be temporarily bypassed on the roll call while the chairman's aide conducts an off-camera canvass.) The convention will have roared with cries of "The man who ..." Then, finally, will come Harry Truman's big moment...