Word: truman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nixon as a cross between a slick operator and an unprincipled opportunist. Nixon ducked no questions except those that implied criticism of the President. He apologized for nothing, admitted that he had called Democrats many a hard name, but never has called them a party of Communists, as Harry Truman likes to say. Admitted Nixon: "Politics the way I play it is a rough business." Said one longtime anti-Nixon newsman at evening's end: "He really won me over." ¶Because too many communiques might sound like too much saber-rattling, the Atomic Energy Commission will make announcements...
...merge the Office of Defense Mobilization with the Office of Civilian Defense Mobilization is one more step in the direction of an efficient and coordinated military structure. Up until now, the ODM has been a small unit with a $3.5 million budget and 240 employees. A holdover from Truman's War Mobilization Board, it has been mainly concerned with standby plans for industry and, to a small extent, with stockpiling...
...Boxing Club. But he hung on to his job as president of the Madison Square Garden Corp., which owns every share of I.B.C. stock, thus remained the chief target of an antitrust judgment awaiting Supreme Court review and a grand-jury investigation of I.B.C. matchmaking. His successor at I.B.C.: Truman Gibson Jr., a Chicago Negro lawyer who represented ex-Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis...
Fitz has been quick and ready to ride off on his own crusades. In 1936, when the P-D fell off its ideological platform and backed Landon against Franklin Roosevelt, and again in 1948 when it backed Dewey against Truman, ardent Democrat Fitzpatrick put down his crayon and went off fishing. Talking to Democrat Mauldin about his new job, Publisher Pulitzer asked what he would do if the P-D backed candidates he could not stomach. "Well," said Mauldin, "I guess I'd go fishing too." Grinned Pulitzer: "Fine...
Jones: A lot of businessmen and economists think so. The Committee for Economic Development and the National Planning Association have come out for a tax cut, and so has the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. So, for that matter, has Harry Truman...