Word: truman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gallup last week reported that 67% of the voters think Ike is doing a good job. The figure is down 5% since March-but is still higher than the averages of either Franklin D. Roosevelt (63%) or Harry Truman...
...powerful in local and national politics. (In Illinois politicians say that an endorsement by the Daily News is an automatic guarantee of 50,000 votes.) Thus, Knight's list from Ike to right marks one of the most significant political shifts in the U.S. press since the Truman...
...Jack Knight himself on Ike's first term. Wrote he: "The political phenomenon of our times is the almost childlike faith of the people in Eisenhower. One seldom hears a businessman teeing off on Ike for doing the very things that caused him to cuss out Roosevelt and Truman as 'Socialists.' The answer must be that our businessmen have changed with the times in terms of social attitudes and are glad the program is being administered by a man they trust...
Haled before a special congressional committee chaired by Maryland's veteran Democratic Senator Millard Tydings, Senator McCarthy replied with thousands of words of obfuscation and counterattack, identified not a single Communist Party member in the Government. The Tydings committee called his charges "a fraud and a hoax." The Truman Administration was part of the history of "20 years of treason," McCarthy insisted-as he kept on making headlines...
...Harvard Law School, he became assistant district attorney in Arkansas and general counsel for the Arkansas department of revenue. In World War II he rose to major in the Army Air Corps, returned to work under the Attorney General and the Postmaster General in Washington. Harry Truman made him budget director in 1949, and Pace produced a healthy budget surplus ($3.5 billion). In 1950, at 37, Pace became Secretary of the Army, served until the Eisenhower Administration came in, when he joined General Dynamics. Independently wealthy, Pace is a skilled golfer (high 70s), champion tennis player and all-round athlete...