Word: truman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Georgia Commission on Education was only a one-stenographer state agency charged with inventing anti-integration laws until Redneck Governor Marvin Griffin decided that it was meant for bigger things. To the unexploited office of commission executive secretary he appointed an ambitious, possum-shaped Atlanta lawyer named T.V. (for Truman Veran) Williams Jr., 26. Williams soon multiplied the commission staff by ten, moved into prominent quarters across the street from the state capitol. He talked the legislature into giving him the power of subpoena, plenty of money for a dreamy assortment of private-eye equipment-long-lens camera, wiretap recorder...
...CURTIS TRUMAN...
...HARRY S. TRUMAN (for the North American Newspaper Alliance...
...Securities and Exchange Commission probe of Goldfine's real-estate troubles, asked if "the only time that you have been required to comply with the law has been under the present Administration?" Goldfine: "That is correct." Asked for details of how he got John R. Steelman, of President Truman's White House staff, to wrangle approval on a $12 million RFC loan, Goldfine relished the answer: "I was more at the White House at that time than I was since Governor Sherman Adams was at the White House...
...year, with Cooper beating Teammate Neale Fraser after a fierce 24-game fourth set. U.S. women did better: California's pesky 5-ft. 1-in. mite, Mimi Arnold, 19, startled the crowd with a savage 10-8, 6-3 mauling of Britain's ballyhooed six-footer, Christine Truman. Then Arnold lost in the quarterfinals to Mme. Suzi Kormoczi, 33, the shrewd Hungarian typist. That pinned remaining U.S. hopes, as usual these days, on poker-faced Althea Gibson, 30. In the final, Althea efficiently walked over Britain's Angela Mortimer 8-6, 6-2. But nowhere was there...