Word: truman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Supreme Court also closed the book on one of the last of the Truman Administration scandals last week: it refused to review the convictions of Matthew J. Connelly, appointments secretary to President Truman, and Theron Lamar ("Sweet Thing") Caudle, Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Justice Department's tax division. They were fined $2,500 and sentenced to two years in prison each for conspiring to fix a tax case during their days in power. Although Connelly and Caudle can ask the Supreme Court to reconsider, their chances are indeed remote...
Untidy Troops. Castro's unpaid volunteer troops form a disorganized, barebones partisan army. They wear blue jeans or khaki pants, Truman shirts or Eisenhower jackets. About 10% have modern weapons, Garands captured from the Cuban army. The rest carry .22-cal. target rifles, double-barreled shotguns, Belgian sporting rifles, Springfields, cheap nickel-plated revolvers, an occasional vintage Krag or Winchester. They also have a couple of dozen .30-cal. machine guns, a few mortars and Browning automatic rifles. Castro runs a tiny arms factory to make tin-can-sized grenades out of sheet metal, TNT and Scotch tape...
Regarding the FCC and Richie Mack story [March 10]: One might think that Truman was still in the White House...
Last week it developed that a good deal depended on whose morality was involved. Republican Wolverton began expounding his ethical ideas to Witness Paul Porter, chairman of the FCC during the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations, now counsel for a losing applicant for Miami's Channel 10. That was what canny Lawyer Porter had been waiting for. Smiling owlishly, he reached into a briefcase, produced a letter from a Congressman to the FCC requesting special action on a constituent's application for TV Channel 17 in Camden, N.J. Date of letter: March 30, 1953. Sender of letter: Representative Wolverton...
...loudest if not the wisest Democratic voice in U.S. agriculture. He speaks through the National Farmers Union, with its 750,000 members (see map), and a network of N.F.U.-run magazines, newspapers, pamphlets and radio programs. Patton's upper councils are a Democratic Farm Cabinet-in-exile: Harry Truman's Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan is the N.F.U.'s general counsel; Wesley McCune, onetime Democratic National Committee farm specialist, is the public-relations director; Leon Keyserling, chairman of President Truman's Council of Economic Advisers, is a consulting economist for the N.F.U...