Word: truman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thank heavens we have dedicated men like Harry S. Truman who will lead us into a depression and worldwide ruin for their own political gain...
...ring for punches designed to slam through the front pages. He must be doing all right for himself, because the shadows in the dark, slimy political alleys continue to try to smear him with the wornout, age-old charges never proved, but kept alive by the followers of Hiss, Truman, Rayburn and others who have dedicated themselves to the vilification of this man of destiny...
...claim that their state really extends three marine leagues (10½ miles) out into the Gulf of Mexico, just as the Republic of Texas did before it joined the U.S. in 1845. Ike kept the campaign promise: in 1953 he signed a bill (similar to bills that Harry Truman had vetoed) turning over to the states the "submerged lands" out to the three-mile limit -"unless" the state's "historic" boundary lay farther out. Texas was mighty pleased...
...claim also made with some justification by New Mexico's junior Senator, Harry Truman's onetime Agriculture Secretary Clinton Anderson, now ranking Senate member of the powerful Joint Committee on Atomic Energy...
...Democrats held a 55% edge in the same area of nationwide congressional preference, but toward midsummer, resentment against a rash of crippling strikes by labor unions turned the tide. That November, Republicans captured a majority of 246 House seats in the 80th Congress, even though Democrat Harry Truman was in the White House. Gallup's 1958 escape hatch: with a summer business upturn, congressional history might possibly repeat itself...