Word: truman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Halpert, who will be curator of the paintings in the Moscow exhibit, huffed: "Some people think the President's paintings aren't so good either. It's like Truman saying modern art resembles ham and eggs...
...House victory and 64-34 Senate victory as a mandate for massive federal spending programs. The Democratic National Committee, chaired by fiery Paul Butler, has all but broken off relations with congressional leaders. Last week the dolittle, talk-much Democratic Advisory Council (among the members: Adlai Stevenson, Harry Truman. Soapy Williams) fired another salvo at Johnson & Co.: "[The voters] expect and are entitled to have in this Congress more tangible results of the mandate they gave the Democratic majority last November than they have received to date...
...Pendergast to jail for income tax evasion; in Kansas City, Mo. Milligan struck the entrenched machine at its vitals: the ballot box. He convicted 259 Pendergast lackeys for fraud in the 1936 election alone. He later lost (1940) a bitter primary race for U.S. Senator to Pendergast Protege Harry Truman, who as Vice President in 1945 closed Milligan's career-by blocking his reappointment...
...Mexico, in 1940 was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for the first of three terms. He made a House name for himself in hard-digging committee investigations, e.g., of Race-Baiter Gerald L. K. Smith, of food-rationing abuses during World War II. In 1945 President Harry Truman, a poker companion of Anderson's, named him Secretary of Agriculture, succeeding Henry A. Wallace. Serving at that post until 1948, Anderson was a staunch advocate of flexible farm supports, has stuck steadfastly to that position ever since, won the gratitude of the Eisenhower Administration for his support...
...cocktail party at the home of his old, close friend, Oilman Edwin Pauley. Symington moved easily among guests ranging from Frank Sinatra to Hotelman Conrad Hilton. But he also spent a long while in private, animated conversation with Host Pauley, whose wealth and whose influence as Harry Truman's top West Coast follower are Symington's best hopes for striking California pay dirt...