Word: truman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chief of staff, was prepared to ride out the storm. But it is likely that both he and Adams have underestimated the storm's force, for across the U.S. a hurricane of criticism swept from the public, the newspapers, cartoonists, jokesters and GOPoliticians. The Democrats, lashed for Truman-era corruption* in the 1952 campaign, were confident that no Republican would dare use the corruption issue again...
...Said Major General Harry H. Vaughan, Truman aide, to a congressional investigating committee on Aug. 30, 1949: "The freezers . . . were a gift from two old friends of mine. This gift was an expression of friendship and nothing more. There is absolutely no connection between this gift and any assistance I have given these friends. At no time have I taken action as a member of the White House staff in exchange for a gift or other favor...
...world film premiere of Kings Go Forth for the benefit of the Monegasque Red Cross. Everyone from Gina Lollobrigida to Frank Sinatra. Noel Coward and Bette Davis was there. At the last moment, however, two of the star attractions, those old-shoe American tourists. Mr. and Mrs. Harry S. Truman of Independence, Mo., sent word that they could not make...
...Britain, whisper it gently," breathed the Times of London, "may today win the Wightman Cup." But one match the Times was ready to concede to the U.S. was between World Champion Althea Gibson and a strapping, 17-year-old blonde named Christine Truman. Christine had got the British team off to a promising start by beating second-ranking U.S. Tennist Dorothy Knode, but did not seem in the same class with Althea. "To expect Miss Truman to defeat Miss Gibson," said the Times sadly, "would be to expect anarchy...
...ascension to power in France so threatened the U.S.'s European policy that "even the modest gains of the past are now in jeopardy," Krock clucked that this sort of "anxious disapproval" was being expressed "largely by some currently displaced foreign policy-makers of the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations," tartly added that "these American 'liberals' " apparently prefer chaos to De Gaulle. ¶ "Remarkable" was Reston's word for a commencement address by Adlai E. Stevenson, which called for a committee of experts to work out a long-range economic recovery program for the free world. Said...