Word: truman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ouster: he had given his lukewarm support to the anti-Kennedy electors in Mississippi. Reprisals are not unheard of in such situations, but the recent tendency has been for the Congress to forgive its prodigal sons. In 1949 the Dixiecrats escaped unscathed after their 1948 rebellion against Harry Truman, and in 1957, after Congressman Adam Clayton Powell campaigned for Dwight Eisenhower in 1956, his fellow Democrats did not touch his committee assignments, although they did strip him temporarily of his patronage. (In the heat of the anti-Colmer drive last week, Judge Smith threatened reprisal against Powell. Said...
...James Forrestal, Robert Patterson. His war duties done, McCloy went briefly back to law, but in 1946 he agreed to place the disorganized International Bank for Reconstruction and Development on its financial feet. McCloy's dictatorial methods won no friends among his fellow bank directors, but when Harry Truman drafted him for High Commissioner to Occupied Germany (1949-52), the bank had an operational profit. In Germany, he helped an ex-mayor named Konrad Adenauer lead West Germany toward its new prosperity. McCloy then returned to private life as chairman of the Chase National (later Chase Manhattan) Bank...
Former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, whose Harvard accent is known to have impressed former President Truman, has now made a speech urging in effect that the United States pull the rug out from under Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek on Formosa...
...expected to do better under the new Administration. And State's top information job, now held by Assistant Secretary Andrew Berding, is in for fierce competition. Favorite candidate among State people is genial Roger Tubby, 50, who was a press officer there from 1945-49, later became Harry Truman's press secretary, and worked hard for Kennedy in the campaign...
...occupants, sniggered: "Fear not, I tell myself; the men who emerge as our leaders will have the incalculable advantage of knowing me." Allen may find it rough going in enticing John F. Kennedy into the recreations that he enjoyed with Gettysburg Neighbor Dwight Eisenhower (farming, bridge and golf), Harry Truman (poker) or Franklin D. Roosevelt (for whom Allen was a top jester as well as a District of Columbia commissioner). Last week Golfer Kennedy, never keen on card games, made it clear that there will be no afternoon trips to Burning Tree: he will abstain from golfing unless...