Word: truman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President erred if he meant that only Congress could revoke the embargo. The applicable law is the 1917 Trading with the Enemy Act, which President Truman invoked after declaring a state of national emergency when Communist China entered the Korean war. The President at his own discretion can return the embargo law to its stand-by status simply by declaring the national emergency...
...believed that it had taken the court farther leftward than at any time since Franklin Roosevelt's day. Roosevelt's most liberal court was built (from 1943 to 1946) around Justices Hugo Black, William Douglas, Frank Murphy and Wiley Rutledge. Chief Justice Fred Vinson edged President Harry Truman's Supreme Court back onto conservative paths. Replacing Vinson (deceased). Earl Warren joined with Old Liberals Black and Douglas to walk hand in hand in the direction of liberalism, and the bloc has been strengthened by Eisenhower-appointed Democrat Brennan. Justices Tom Clark, John Marshall Harlan or Felix Frankfurter...
Brand-new grandparents Harry and Bess Truman journeyed from Independence, Mo. to Manhattan's Doctors Hospital, on the way acquired a baseball and glove for their just-arrived grandson, Clifton Truman Daniel, first child of their daughter Margaret and New York Timesman son-in-law Clifton Daniel. Asked if he hoped the baby would grow up to be President, the ex-Chief Executive said he wouldn't wish that on anybody, later gave a no-nonsense description of the young Democrat: "It looks like all babies two days...
Landing in Arab countries he found himself looked on suspiciously as a Zionist because he is a liberal Democrat and political clansman of Harry Truman, who had recognized Israel the day the tiny state was established. Humphrey conquered suspicion by listening attentively, answering Arab complaints with clear-cut definitions of U.S. aims, letting his hosts have the last word. The Arabs came to accept him as no Zionist, but a man of understanding and sympathy...
...that the President "is fighting the wrong battle on the wrong ground with the wrong weapons." Stewart Alsop, also of Lawrence's home paper, the Trib, said: "The betting is still that Congress will do to the popular Eisenhower what it never dared to do to the unpopular Truman-hack away at his whole foreign policy program with a meat ax all along the line." Fair-Dealing Doris Fleeson even started one column: "The President has lost his budget fight." Lawrence, who is still being bombarded with critical mail for his defense of the budget, disagreed. "The tide...