Word: truman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...frank, Ec 1 seems to be controlled and guided by Keynesian economists and New Dealers (some of whom have served as advisers to President Roosevelt and Truman) who appear to be unable or disinclined to detach themself as scholars from the controversial political and social issues which involved those two politicians. Consequently, most lectures and some sections in the course often degenerate into a simple apologia for the New Deal...
...carried the deadlock to $2,000 a point. On a question about the six Vice Presidents of the U.S. who went on to be elected to the presidency, both minds clicked along the same track of thought, got three chronologically (Adams. Jefferson, Van Buren), jumped to the latest-Harry Truman-then to Coolidge and then agonized for a while before naming Teddy Roosevelt. Van Doren, who risks losing $42,000, perhaps even more, of his big pot, was beginning to chafe at the tension: "It's like a full house in a poker game when there...
...cable to the Sultan saying: 'I want Perdicarris alive or Rasuli dead. I sent a cruiser to Morocco today.' Perdicarris was released immediately.*The attention of the children will be called to the contrast of the course taken by the great Roosevelt with that of Franklin Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower, which has won the contempt and derision of the world...
After a published report said that it was so, New York Timesman Clifton Daniel, 44, confirmed it: Margaret Truman Daniel, 33, his bride of ten months, will become a mother "about July" and she feels "fine...
...Sevareid's rejected script was much gentler than many others that CBS has aired out of his own mouth. In June 1953 he said: "The country is not in danger of government by fascists or Communists; it's in danger of government by stuffed shirts." During the Truman Administration, CBS even permitted Sevareid the editorial "We." He said: "We think the President has been basically right on foreign policy, including his handling of the Korean war, but we think he's run out of gas on domestic affairs...