Word: truman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME, May 28, says "Harry S. (for Swinomish) Truman." Is that a bit of humor lost on me? My biographical material says that "S" alone is used because the Truman family was unable to agree upon whether it really stood for Shippe or Solomon...
...Truman middle initial originally stood for nothing. Recently an honorary one was provided by Washington State's Swinomish Indian tribe and formally accepted by the former President (TIME...
...timed to keep Harriman unbruised by primary fights, and make the most of his powerful connections. For months Harriman and his handlers, led by Tammany Hall Chief Carmine De Sapio, have been preparing for this phase of the campaign. They have had the welcome support of Old Pro Harry Truman despite his public insistence that he is not supporting any candidate. Truman's link: former Democratic national chairman, Indianapolis Banker Frank McKinney, informal Harriman ambassador to the states generally west of the Alleghenies...
...support Symington for the nomination until released, Convention Chairman William E. Kemp and fellow-Democrats hoped that they were starting a boom that would end in Symington's nomination-possibly on the third ballot. They recalled that their man had won his senatorial nomination in 1952 over Harry Truman's opposition, and carried Missouri (by 150,351) while Dwight Eisenhower was winning the presidential vote (by 29,599). Some Symington enthusiasts wanted to ride right off to launch a national campaign 1) in the South, where Symington's border-state reputation as a moderate on segregation...
After outdistancing his entourages in a fortnight's dashing about Italy, tireless Tourist Harry S. (for Swinomish) Truman raced on to Austria, where he was soon ensconced in the third row of a Salzburg concert hall. As Music Lover Truman watched approvingly, Conductor Bernhard Paumgartner struck up the band, then quickly stopped the music while guards kicked out a movie cameraman who had ignored a signal to go away from Truman territory. At a dinner that followed, the former President, never averse to giving hell even to the press when it nettles him, outspokenly applauded the maestro...