Word: truman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your June 4 issue carries a story concerning the hassle started when Harry Truman criticized the military operations at Salerno and Anzio. General Eisenhower is credited by Harry Butcher in his book, My Three Years with Eisenhower, with telling George Allen that there are only two professions in the world in which the amateur excels the professional. One, military strategy, and two, prostitution...
...appointments secretary and trusted aide to President Harry S. Truman, poker-faced Matthew J. Connelly had a reputation in Washington for getting things done. Last week in St. Louis, a federal district court jury decided that Matt Connelly had tried to get too many things done: it convicted him of conspiring to fix a tax case. Also convicted was Theron Laniar ("Sweet Thing") Caudle, onetime Assistant Attorney General who shocked Washington in 1951 with his honeysuckle-toned stories of poorly concealed roguery in the Truman Administration...
Continuing his galloping gander at Europe, tireless Tourist Harry Truman returned to France and Gay Paree, where he made a brief speech on the stresses of the U.S. presidency, indicating that a young man should occupy the White House. How young is young? Truman did not say, except to reaffirm that he, at 72, knows his own "running-for-office days are over." Two days later, in Brussels, he made it clear that he considers Dwight D. Eisenhower young enough at 65 to run for reelection. Asked by a Belgian newsman whether the Democrats would welcome a decision...
Myron C. Taylor, presidential representative to the Vatican under Roosevelt and Truman L.H.D...
Married. Gordon Gray, 47, shy, sandy-haired Assistant Secretary of Defense, ex-president (1950-55) of the University of North Carolina, onetime (1949-50) Secretary of the Army and special assistant to Harry Truman on foreign aid (the "Gray Report"), first director of the U.S. Government's Psychological Strategy Board, head of the special security board of the AEC that barred Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer from access to the nation's top atom secrets, publisher; and Mrs. Nancy Maguire Beebe, 31; both for the second time; in Washington...