Word: truman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...United Nations; of pneumonia; in Burlington, Vt. In the Senate, Austin was an outspoken internationalist who championed lend-lease in 1941 with a thunderously applauded oration: "I say that a world enslaved to Hitler is worse than war, and worse than death." Appointed to the U.N. by Harry Truman, he was a rough-and-ready adversary of Soviet propaganda efforts. His most dramatic hour came in 1950 when he answered Moscow's attempt to charge the U.S. with aggression in Korea. Austin held up a Russian-made burp gun supplied to North Korean attackers, and said that Russia...
Died. James Patrick McGranery, 67, U.S. Attorney General in the Truman Administration's last year, a onetime New Deal Democratic Congressman from Philadelphia (1936-43) who was brought in to clean house in the Justice Department after Truman fired his predecessor, J. Howard McGrath; of a heart attack; in Palm Beach. The Washington Daily News hooted that "the Administration now will hide its grapes of McGrath in the ever normal McGranery," but McGranery went at it with a will, bounced Justice bureaucrats, freely fired crooked U.S. marshals, and started proceedings to deport such Mafia mobsters as Frank Costello...
David Brinkley's Journal (NBC, 10-10:30 p.m.). A study in oratorical openings, noting how different men begin speeches, including clips of Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Everett Dirksen and Charles Halleck...
...most dramatic part of the plan was a request to the U.S. to send additional military equipment to the U.N. Congo force. The U.S. responded last week by naming Lieut. General Louis W. Truman, 54, a bantam, 150-lb. West Pointer (and second cousin of Harry S Truman) as head of an eight-man mission to weigh the U.N.'s arms needs. Seven of the eight are members of a top-drawer planning group called JTF4 (for Joint Task Force 4), set up in 1961 to chart long-range military contingency plans for sub-Saharan Africa. As General Truman...
Died. David Demarest Lloyd, 51, Harvard-trained lawyer who became a speechwriter and assistant to Harry Truman and later head of his presidential library; of a stroke; in Alexandria...