Word: truman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blame for our failure must lie fairly and squarely on the U.S. The Truman Administration, by its refusal to share atomic secrets, abruptly ended the Churchill-Roosevelt understanding about the full exchange of information. All too tragically the rift between us is widening. There seems to be a sneaking satisfaction in this country that the Russians have again licked the U.S., and more than a sneaking satisfaction in the U.S. about the continuing decline of the British Empire...
...plum rather than those who aspire to the heights of the legal profession." Ohio's William McCulloch noted that the 70 new judgeships, plus 19 vacancies, add up to 89 judges whom President Kennedy could appoint in his early months in office-more than Franklin Roosevelt or Harry Truman had appointed in their first four years...
...soldiers in Europe with a mixture of sex and carefully documented exposés of officers abusing their rank. According to the Overseas Weekly, Walker was stuffing his troops with the rightist rantings of Birch Society Founder Robert Welch, once made a public speech in which he called President Truman "definitely pink" and TV's Edward R. Murrow a "confirmed Communist." A man of towering temper, Walker was so enraged when he heard of Murrow's appointment as director of the U.S. Information Agency that his staff officers feared to go near...
Another public art project, was put on view a fortnight ago with the dedication of a 32-ft.-long mural by Realistic Regionalist Thomas Hart Benton, 72, for the library of fellow-Missourian Harry S. Truman in Independence. Worked up from a three-dimensional clay model and a miniature painting, the mural is, says Benton, whose eyes are tiring, his last major project. The crowded historical pageant, called Independence and the Opening of the West, shows Indians, hunters trappers, French explorers, settlers and adventurers-the men, says Benton, who gradually "changed Independence from a quiet backwoods settlement to the gateway...
After acting as the New Frontier's savvy liaison man with the outgoing Administration, Washington Attorney Clark Clifford was hired last week by the General Electric Co. Duty of the onetime top Truman brain-truster: advising the company on the multi-million-dollar damage claims resulting from February's antitrust convictions...