Word: truman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Truman Administration, a trusty news source for hardworking, Fair-Dealing Columnist Doris Fleeson, fiftyish, was Navy Secretary Dan A. Kimball. At long last on the asking side of a question, California Businessman (Aerojet-General Corp.) Kimball, 62, earned the right answer, last week provided Newshen Fleeson, ex-wife of the New York Daily News's Washington Columnist John O'Donnell, with a homegrown item: she and Dan, whose first marriage was dissolved last year, will be married next month at the home of Manhattan friends...
...remember deploring the publicity given the "misguided" members of Truman's Administration, and cannot help but abhor the press's full coverage of the "dirty" side of any administration. Is it not possible to criticize in a constructive manner so that our neighbors elsewhere in the world will not think we're juvenile and petty...
...Adolfo López Mateos rolled through Mexico City this week at the head of a giant parade of gaily decorated floats and charros (cowboys) on prancing horses. As they have since 1946, Mexicans will go to the polls next week and-barring an upset more sensational than Harry Truman's-elect the candidate of the Party of Revolutionary Institutions (P.R.I.) to a six-year term...
...record of Truman Administration corruption, after six years, still hangs over the Democratic Party. Apart from instances of penny-ante skulduggery that resulted in resignations, a flock of damning charges turned into at least eight court convictions. Reconstruction Finance Corp. Loan Examiner E. Merl Young was convicted of perjury. Nailed, too, were Massachusetts Tax Collector Denis Delany (bribery), Missouri Collector James Finnegan (who collected legal retainers from firms doing business with the Government), former Commissioner of Internal Revenue Joseph Nunan Jr. (income tax evasion), California Deputy Collector Ernest M. Schino and Nevada's BIR Chief Field Deputy Patrick Mooney...
...written by Justice Tom Clark, concurred in by Justices Harold Burton, John Marshall Harlan, Charles E. Whittaker: 1) the Secretary of State is authorized by precedents reaching back to 1856 to preside over passports, period-and never more so than in times of national emergency, and that 2) President Truman's declaration of national emergency, proclaimed in 1950, is still in specific effect, thereby giving the Secretary of State wider discretion over passports...