Word: truman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Truman's term, Adlai had an old pair of shoes with a hole through the half-sole; now, at the end of three years of Ike's term, Adlai has a new pair of shoes with a whole half-sole...
Stevenson is a roorback specialist. The roorback hibernates during political off-years and roars back to life during national presidential campaigns. Ex-President Truman is a well-known breeder of roorbacks; occasionally they turn on him. His latest encounter with a roorback was well nigh fatal...
...this precinct's major-party vote went to President Truman 52.5 per cent, to Thomas E. Dewey's 47.5 per cent. The national major-party vote gave Truman 52.4 per cent and Dewey...
University returns of past years have been characterized by a Republican regularity that occasionally transcends national trends and CRIMSON editorial support for other candidates. In 1948, when the CRIMSON was one of President Truman's few vocal journalistic supporters, the College voted heavily for Dewey by 1013 to Truman's 508, Thomas' 151, and Wallace's 133. No poll was conducted by the CRIMSON in 1944, when the paper was a service organ...
...town. His unsuccessful 1954 opponant for re-election, James A. Burke of Hyde Park, charged then that Whittier was the "most expensive Lieutenant Governor the state has ever had. He has turned the office into a publicity mill," Burke said. And Dever, biting back at Whittier before a recent Truman testimonial dinner, said, "You have your Nixon on the national scale. We have our Whittier in Massachusetts. They are counterparts...