Word: truman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that time, the U.S. produced no nickel at all; the entire supply was imported, largely from Canada. But Hanna owned an idle nickel mine in Oregon, and the Truman Administration began negotiating with the company to open the mine for production. On Jan. 16, 1953, just four days before the Eisenhower Administration took over, the Government and the Hanna Co. signed their contracts...
...tough turn of mind, an eagerness to accept responsibility and a knack for survival. He mastered Russian in his 20s, served as Franklin Roosevelt's interpreter during the President's long, private talks with Stalin at Teheran and Yalta, and later performed the same duty for Harry Truman at Potsdam. In 1953, when President Eisenhower nominated him Ambassador to Moscow, Bohlen was attacked by Joe McCarthy, who charged that he had helped shape the controversial Yalta agreements. Although Bohlen insisted that he had acted only as an interpreter at the conference, he doggedly refused to repudiate the agreements...
...prize. Hustled out of Great Britain was George Lincoln Rockwell, self-styled Führer of the Nazi Party in the U.S. Rockwell, 44, leads a band of a few hundred American Nazis, agitates for deporting all Negroes to Africa, liquidating the Jews, and hanging all "traitors," e.g., Eisenhower, Truman, Chief Justice Warren. He had gone to Britain to be guest star at a convention of British Nazis. But when his presence was discovered, Scotland Yard picked him up and, with very little time wasted on legal argument, put him on a U.S.-bound plane. As he boarded...
...What do retired U.S. Presidents do?" asked a lady some years back. "Madam, we spend our time taking pills and dedi cating libraries," explained the most venerable expert on the subject, Herbert Hoover, 31st U.S. President, as he helped the 33rd, Harry Truman, dedicate his presidential library at Independence...
Last week Truman was on hand to lead a crowd of 30,000 in singing Happy Birthday as Hoover, marking his 88th year, returned to his grass-roots birthplace at West Branch, Iowa (pop. 1,053), to dedicate his own library, the fourth presidential library created by Congress (others: Roosevelt's at Hyde Park, N.Y., Eisenhower's at Abilene, Kans.). But on this occasion, an ex-President did more than ribbon-snip. Speaking "as the shadows gather around me," Hoover took the United Nations to task. The world organization was racked by the "disintegrating forces" of the Communist...