Word: truman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...giant core of "labor, the farmers and the Negro people," the Communist national committee praised the presidential campaign of Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver as "beneficial in all directions." But it harshly criticized the "Johnson-Rayburn line of 'party unity' with the Dixiecrats," the "Harriman-Truman line of attacking Geneva" and the "vacillations and retreats of Adlai Stevenson." What the U.S. Communist Party must do, its committee said, is to adopt "a more independent course which influences the direction of the Democratic Party...
After months of speculation, Democrat Charles F. Brannan, Secretary of Agriculture under Harry Truman, and now general counsel of the National Farmers Union, announced in Denver last week that he will seek the U.S. Senate seat held for the past 14 years by Colorado Republican Eugene Millikin. Confined to a wheelchair by arthritis and complications. Millikin, 65, has announced that he will run again. But the G.O.P., facing hard opposition from Brannan, is expected to urge Senator Millikin to withdraw in favor of a candidate who could conduct a more vigorous campaign. A leading choice of the politicos, if Gene...
Landing in France, Tourist Harry S. (for Swinomish) Truman, on his first trip to Europe since 1945 and Potsdam, was soon strolling the streets of Gay Paree, swinging his cane in best boulevardier style, his jauntiness cramped only by a sprained ankle. Before leaving Independence, explained Truman, "I was getting some bags down the stairs and stumbled. But it was 7 o'clock in the morning, so nobody can accuse me of anything." He sipped coffee at the Café de la Paix, a favorite hangout for Artillery Captain Truman during leaves in World War I. After his short...
...weeks later, Matthews drew a red line through Burke's name on a list of promotions to rear admiral; it was back on the next list after a press outcry and the personal intervention of Admiral Forrest Sherman, the new Chief of Naval Operations, with President Truman...
Back from their fortnight honeymoon in the Bahamas, New York Timesman Clifton Daniel and his bride, Margaret Truman Daniel, played it plain, set a refreshingly unobtrusive tone for their future public appearances. Said Cliff Daniel to fellow newsmen at New York International Airport: "We're an old married couple now, and we're not news any more." Asked if she plans to step back into radio and TV stardom, the girl from Missouri replied: "As long as it doesn't interfere with my husband's career...