Word: truman
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Recommended reading and an excellent traveling companion for those touring Europe: Years of Trial and Hope by Harry S. Truman. Preface-"Any schoolboy's afterthought is worth more than the forethought of the greatest statesmen...
...appointment, and is now distrusted by many liberals who feel he has betrayed them. As a general rule, he would rather decide a case on statutory law or a legal technicality than on a basic constitutional issue. Tom Clark, still trying to live down his name as Harry Truman's most patent political appointee, tends (with some notable exceptions) to follow the lead of the Chief Justice, whether it be Fred.Vinson or Vinson's successor, Earl Warren. HarIan, a "lawyer's lawyer," has broader previous experience at the bar and the bench than any of his colleagues...
...Harry S. Truman, 72, who as the last Democratic President is the party's elder statesman and top kingmaker, has been urged by some to run again himself. Though he declined a place in the Missouri delegation to preserve his much-advertised neutrality, Truman seems to be for Harriman, is angry at Stevenson for not following his advice in the past, has set in motion pro-Harriman drumbeating west of the Mississippi...
Frank E. McKinney, 52, Indianapolis banker, Harry Truman's hand-picked choice as Democratic National Chairman until he was ousted by the Stevensonites in 1952. He is convinced that Adlai is far from the popular choice, that the U.S. is a gold mine of unpanned Harriman strength, and he will be with Harriman until the bitter end. His battle cry to Harriman agents: "Don't sit back and let nature take its course; there is work to be done...
Died. Hiram Bingham, 80, onetime (1924-33) Republican Senator from Connecticut, head (1951-53) of the U.S. Government's Loyalty Review Board (to which he was appointed by Harry Truman to counter Republican charges that the Administration was harboring disloyal employees), World War I aviator, history teacher (at Yale, Princeton, Harvard, Johns Hopkins), explorer-author (Lost City of the Incas) and biographer (Elihu Yale-The American Nabob of Queen Square); after long illness; in Washington. Tall (6 ft. 4 in.), scholarly Hiram Bingham was one of four legislators censured by the U.S. Senate in its 167-year history...