Word: truman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Once convicted of manslaughter and five times arrested on suspicion of murder, Carbo is currently serving a two-year sentence for illegally operating as a boxing manager and matchmaker. In Carbo's absence, his pervasive influence over the boxing world was detailed by a man who should know: Truman K. Gibson Jr., 48, Negro ex-secretary of the now defunct ring monopoly, the International Boxing Club...
...went according to Jack Kennedy's plan. He very much wanted able New York Banker Robert Lovett, 65, in a key spot. One of Henry Stimson's and George Marshall's top men in the '40s, later Harry Truman's Defense Secretary, Republican Bob Lovett is experienced and respected. One Kennedy staffer said that he wished there were three Lovetts, so that one each could be Treasury Secretary, Defense Secretary and Secretary of State. But Lovett has had a serious stomach operation, and regretfully turned down a Cabinet post...
...Netherlands and bomb explosions muffled in the soft sands of Dunkirk, the series is much more than newsreel shots and selected quotes. Its staff of nearly 250 has also collected brief, extraordinary commentaries from the low and the mighty of the Churchill years-housewives. Tommies, Clement Attlee, Eisenhower, Truman, De Gaulle. One of the best offers a light footnote to dark tension. A Thames boatman remembers his Channel crossing for the Dunkirk evacuation 20 years ago, says he finished off a bawtla whisky on the way 'ome. "The wife said, 'Are you tired or drunk?' I said...
...divided in proportion to its popular vote. The Senate in 1950 passed the proposal, but the House Rules Committee blocked it. Principal argument against the proportional system is that splinter parties could gain great power. Had a proportional system prevailed at the times of Lincoln (1860), Wilson (1912) and Truman-all of whom won less than a popular majority-the votes of splinter parties would have sent the contests into the House of Representatives. In 1960 a proportional count would have cut Jack Kennedy's electoral margin of victory from 300-223 to 264-259-which, being five votes...
Originally filed as a criminal action by the Truman Administration in 1952, the suit charged the five with conspiring with Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. and British Petroleum Co. Ltd. to fix free-world oil prices and control world oil production. The Eisenhower Administration toned down the suit to a civil one in 1953, and the Justice Department spent seven years re-examining the merits of its case, which even the trustbusters knew was none too strong. Last week two of the defendants, Jersey Standard and Gulf, while not admitting any guilt, signed consent decrees promising not to enter into...