Word: truman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consulted him on "nonpartisanship." Roosevelt sent him as an adviser to the founding conference of the U.N. at San Francisco, where he and Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg worked successfully to get the word "justice" ranked with "peace" in the U.N. Charter. In the next five years President Truman sent him to nine more conferences, from London to Moscow to Japan; Dulles threw his influence behind the Marshall Plan and NATO, drafted and negotiated the Japanese Peace Treaty in a brilliant, yearlong, 125,000-mile performance in which he applied the lessons he had learned at Versailles...
...night of May 5, with Democrats across the country preparing to gather in observation of ex-President Harry S. Truman's 75th birthday, a dozen national figures met for a pre-birthday dinner in the home of Oklahoma's Senator Mike Monroney on Washington's 32nd Street. It was an amiable, comfortable evening, with little serious political shop talk. But as it neared an end, one Democratic patriarch turned to the patriarchal guest of honor. Said House Speaker Sam Rayburn, 77, to Harry Truman: "Let me drop you downtown." From that offer came a political compact, soon...
...Harry Truman Suggested...
...years, the CRIMSON has stated definitely that former President Harry S. Truman will receive an honorary, and this year there will be no change. Truman's time will come--Oxford has already climbed aboard the rapidly accelerating HST bandwagon--and it could well be that this June will see the great man in Harvard Yard...
...Harry Truman carried the trend onward with his seizure of the steel mills in April 1952. President Truman, Burnham notes, never cited any specific law for the seizure, claimed only-with precise democratist logic-that the President "represents the interest of all the people," and must "use his powers to safeguard the nation" when Congress fails to act (an argument rejected by the Supreme Court). The explanation reminds Burnham of the doctrine of Salus populi suprema lex esto (The people's welfare is the highest law), an excuse for tyranny under the Roman Caesars...