Word: truman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Next month Land will launch a new bellwether Masonic echelon: the Ancient and Honorable Guild of the Leather Apron, with faithful attendance at Masonic affairs a prime membership qualification. First among his prospective apron wearers: Missouri's U.S. Senator Stuart Symington, Kansas Tycoon Harry Darby, ex-President Harry Truman. Such VIPs, duly enlisted, hopes Booster Land, will constitute "a band of leaders, men with Stardust on them, who will bring back the rank and file to the lodges...
...about The Last Angry Man by Harry S. Truman...
...retreat-which would have been called betrayal short months ago-the Leadership Conference had plenty of company. Word spread that Harry Truman's Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, had helped author the amendment that weakened the bill by requiring jury trials in contempt cases. The New York Times, which had scored the jury trial amendment a few days before, urged the Senate to pass the weak bill as the best possible. So did ardently pro-Ike New York Herald Tribune Columnist Roscoe Drummond. So did the civil-righteous Washington Post and Times Herald: famed Post Cartoonist Herbert Block (Herblock...
...Pacing the U.S. Wightman Cup team, Wimbledon Champion Althea Gibson won two singles matches (against Great Britain's Shirley Bloomer and Christine Truman), paired with Darlene Hard to take a doubles from Bloomer and Sheila Armstrong. Result: U.S. women tennis players beat Britain 6-1, again won the Wightman Cup which they have held since...
...susceptibility to influence" and a "serious disregard" of U.S. security requirements that raised reasonable doubt, not of his loyalty, but of his judgment. Scientist Evans countered, in a two-page minority report, that the atomic scientist's judgment, while sometimes bad, was better than in 1947 when a Truman loyalty board cleared him, and "to damn him now and ruin his career and his service, I cannot...