Word: truman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shadegg got into politics in 1938, managing the campaign of a Democratic candidate for Maricopa County sheriff. In 1950 he ran his first statewide campaign-for Hayden, who faced and won a primary fight. "All this time," says Shadegg now, "I was describing myself as an anti-Roosevelt, anti-Truman, anti-New Deal, anti-Fair Deal, Jeffersonian Democrat." Still a nominal Democrat. Shadegg managed Barry Goldwater's first campaign for the U.S. Senate in 1952. Shadegg coached his candidate in public speaking, advised Goldwater to hang tight to Eisenhower's coattails to win-which he did. Three years...
...timing is no accident: the Internal Revenue Service likes to give the impression at filing time that, like the Mounties, it always gets its man. Last week, as some 62.9 million Americans went through their annual throes, they could reflect on the well-publicized tax indictment of J. Truman Bidwell, chairman of the board of governors of the New York Stock Exchange...
...American Activities Committee to ensure the conviction of Alger Hiss for perjury. He built on his success a reputation for finding subversives, and so it was that General Eisenhower, who hardly knew him in 1952, chose him as a running mate able to push the first two anti-Truman planks in the Republican platform. Communism, corruption, Korea; the General attended to the third...
Enjoined by Wife Bess not to "show off like you usually do," Harry Truman, 77, was flawlessly decorous as he bestowed the Yale Club of Washington's annual "distinguished achievement" award on his last Secretary of State, Dean Acheson ('15). Responding to Truman's description of him as "one of the greatest of the great Secretaries of State,'' Acheson hailed his "beloved chief" as "a Yale man in every sense of the word,'' reminisced admiringly that "in the Truman Administration you often got shot in the front but never in the back." Summed...
...federal favors) or in populous states (New York, Illinois and California) where several Democrats have already been chosen and the party is satisfied. Once this is done, Kennedy's score on partisanship will be little different from that of his predecessors: Roosevelt named 208 Democrats and 8 Republicans, Truman 129 Democrats and 13 Republicans, Eisenhower 175 Republicans and 11 Democrats. The American Bar Association, which has given Kennedy generally good marks for the quality of his selections to date, feels that he missed an unusual chance to continue the partisan balance left by Eisenhower (161 Republicans, 160 Democrats...