Word: truman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that rises above politics. It inspires faith in his motives and gives weight to his words. Says Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson: "Any time Bill Knowland tells you something, you can believe it." In 1949 Knowland voted against the confirmation of Dean Acheson as Secretary of State in the Truman Administration, and he was the leading Senate critic of Acheson's Far Eastern policies. But he did not hesitate to stand on the Senate floor and pay tribute to Acheson's handling of the Japanese peace treaty. When Harry Truman was subjected to a below-the-belt attack...
...Bess Truman, 71, resting comfortably in an Independence, Mo. hospital after breaking her left ankle in a stairway fall at home; cinema Tough Guy Humphrey Bogart, 58, slowly mending from throat cancer surgery last March despite weight loss (he now scales 120 lbs. v. his normal 150); Wisconsin's Republican Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, 47, out of Bethesda Naval Hospital in time to attend the opening of Congress, recovered from further surgery on the site of an operation he underwent last summer for removal of a tumor in his right...
...Italian automobile club on politeness; he received Germany's Evangelical Lutheran Bishop Otto Dibelius and U.S. Atomic Energy Commissioner Lewis Strauss, the workers of Lombardy, the Roman nobility, 360 U.S. servicemen from NATO, and officials of the U.N. Office of Public Information. Baptist ex-President Harry Truman came to see him, as did Moslem President Sukarno of Indonesia, the Irish Pioneer Total Abstinence Association, the Seventh International Astronautical Congress, to whom he said that their efforts to explore the universe were legitimate before...
...January issue of Fisherman magazine gaffed none other than Harry S. Truman. Fisherman's contention: though Truman was photographed, while President, in various Izaak Walton poses with grouper, bonitos, barracuda and king salmon, "there is no concrete evidence that he actually caught any of them." Said Harry, a weekend fisherman who likes to fish, as long as his companions are folksy...
...unlike those of many cartoonists, are all his own. On the theory that "a cartoonist has to be passionately interested in politics," he pays frequent visits to the House of Commons to stalk his prey, make sure that his characters look like their caricatures. In 1949, after meeting Harry Truman for the first time in Washington, Vicky blurted: "I congratulate you." When Truman asked, "What for?" Vicky explained: "For looking more like my caricatures than I thought you did." In Vicky's gallery, Khrushchev looks like a Charles Addams rendering of a prizefighter; Lord Beaverbrook, empire-building publisher...