Word: truman
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Ever since Republican Whelan was appointed by Democrat Harry Truman in 1951,* Nicaragua has suited...
...reward to North Dakota's maverick-Republican Senator, the late William ("Wild Bill") Langer, who cast a crucial vote against Senate investigation of alleged 1946 vote frauds in Truman's home town, Kansas City...
...Mencken-but is a little spottier on contemporaries, e.g., Jean-Paul Sartre, Elizabeth Bowen. John Hersey. John Updike. Random House (1959 sales: more than $12 million) has the late Eugene O'Neill and Sinclair Lewis, as well as Faulkner. John O'Hara, Robert Penn Warren, Truman Capote, Isak Dinesen, Irwin Shaw, James Michener...
...villains are still the same: Churchill scheming to job France out of her rightful place in the Middle East; F.D.R. determined to reduce France to a minor power. De Gaulle categorically asserts that in May 1945, when victory in Europe had scarcely been won, Churchill sent telegrams to Harry Truman calling De Gaulle "an enemy of the Allies." Yet he is finally willing to admit that without Churchill's wartime leadership, "my efforts would have been futile from the start.'' When the retreating Germans rallied briefly in December 1944 and broke through the Allied lines...
...Dandy, by Ellen Moers. The impulse to pluperfection in male attire, scarcely visible in the age of the sack suit and Truman shirt, ran high from Beau Brummell's time to Max Beerbohm's, and the author charts it with sober care...