Word: truman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...entirely a new Democratic line. In 1948, Harry Truman called the Republican Party the unwitting ally of U.S. Communists, asserted that the Reds wanted a Republican Administration "because they think that its reactionary policies will lead to the confusion and strife on which Communism thrives...
...election year, Harry Truman recently observed, Americans behave somewhat like primitive people at the time of the full moon. As this year's political debate warms up, TIME is offering its subscribers a new gadget that will help settle many an argument, perhaps touch off a good many more...
Throughout Truman's stay, Harriman supporters marched in and out of his Carlyle Hotel suite. No working Stevenson backer came to call. Sam Rosenman had breakfast with Harriman and Truman, escorted Truman to a meeting of the Council on Foreign Relations, closed out the day with Harry and Bess Truman at "21." When New York Post Publisher Dorothy Schiff (George Backer's exwife) asked Truman about Stevenson's chances, she got a meaningful reply. Reported Publisher Schiff: "Mr. Truman pointed out that a once-defeated presidential candidate has never won in American history except in the strange...
...Cold Mathematics. Averell Harriman can gain much from Truman's attitude. He can keep on throwing missiles at Stevenson, from beans to harpoons. He can perfect his plans for blowing up the civil-rights issue. But all this may well be too little and too late, for Harriman is still confronted by the cold mathematics of the delegate count as the convention draws close. That count, including first-ballot votes pledged and indicated (see box), shows...
Died. Judge Rubey Mosley Hulen, 61, U.S. District Court jurist who presided at the recent trial of Matthew J. Connelly and T. Lamar Caudle, onetime Truman Administration officials convicted last month (TIME, June 25) of conspiring to fix a Government tax case, and who was scheduled to sentence them next week; of a gunshot wound in the head while on his backyard pistol range; in St. Louis...