Word: truman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Today these four parties are as intact as ever: the Roosevelt-Truman-Stevenson-Kennedy presidential Democrats; the Willkie-Dewey-Eisenhower-Rockefeller presidential Republicans; the John Garner-Howard Smith-Harry Byrd-John McClellan congressional Democrats; and the Allen Treadway*-Robert Taft-Charles Halleck congressional Republicans...
After eleven months of embarrassing headlines and two courtroom trials-the first of which ended in a hung jury-Manhattan Broker J. (for James) Truman Bidwell, 59, former chairman of the board of governors of the New York Stock Exchange, was last week acquitted of income tax evasion...
...C.I.O. officially suggests, as it did a fortnight ago, that the top tax rate be slashed from the present 91% to 65%. And it is a sign that an idea is on the march when a Democratic President of the U.S., a political heir of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, declares that "our tax system exerts too heavy a drag on growth . . . siphons out of the private economy too large a share of personal and business purchasing power . . . reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment and risk taking...
...explained as an Oklahoman -and an oilman. He fought savagely for continuance of the 27½% oil-depletion tax allowance; all the while he remained chairman of the board of Kerr-McGee Oil Industries Inc., and sneered at conflict-of-interest charges. As an Oklahoman, he supported President Truman's ouster of General Douglas MacArthur-mostly because he feared that MacArthur might expand the Korean war to the point that National Guardsmen of Oklahoma's Thunderbird Division might be called into combat. "You say I'm an Oklahoma Senator more than a national Senator?" he often asked...
After several violent deaths, sundry fornications and an inventively rigged court trial, Author Willingham brings the book to its crowning mockery, a happy ending. The little flowers, pushing up through the mulch of Willingham's Faulkner parodies, Truman Capote parodies and Carson McCullers parodies, nod prettily to each other...