Word: truman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the Administrations of his two Democratic successors, Harry S Truman has carefully refrained from making any pronouncements critical of their policies. Last week the man from Missouri found that he could keep silent no longer. "There is a matter," he said in a formal statement, "about which I am so deeply concerned that I feel it has become necessary for me to speak out." The matter is one that is on the minds of a great many Americans, from housewives to investment bankers to the President of the U.S. himself: the tightest money the U.S. has seen since...
...Truman's words fell like thunder claps on banks and stock markets from Wall Street to Tokyo, but their impact was most pronounced in Washington-particularly on the man in the White House. Lyndon Johnson is something of a Populist who agrees with Truman that money should be easier. But-as with so many other things lately-he has done nothing to offset the rising rates except talk about them. Truman's prodding stung him sharply. "I, too, am concerned about the interest-rate rise and what it means to many Americans," protested the President, but he denied...
...rather oratory. He likes to think of himself as the "Toastmaster General of the U.S." Since he is essentially a Jewish comic, he specializes in Israel-bond and similar fund-raising functions. He is equally proud of the fact that he spoke at inaugural parties for Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John Kennedy...
...orgy that brought death to 13 people in Camden, N.J., in 1949, and bandy-legged Charles Starkweather's slaying of ten during a three-day odyssey through Nebraska and Wyoming in 1958. There were the two murderers of the Clutter family, Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, now enshrined in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, the year's most talked-about bestseller. Only last month, when eight student nurses were slain in a Chicago town house, and Richard Speck was charged with the crime, an official there called the murders "the crime of the century." Sadly, Austin Police Chief Robert...
...historic Escobedo case, which involved the Chicago cops themselves-that a suspect may not be questioned without a lawyer's advice, police let more than a week elapse without attempting to interrogate Speck. Such new-found deference evoked caustic comment from several sources, among them Author Truman Capote, whose bestseller In Cold Blood is an exhaustive anatomy of the two men convicted of murdering the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, in 1959. Testifying before the U.S. Senate Constitutional Rights Subcommittee, Capote reasoned that had the Supreme Court's recent rulings banning forced confessions been in effect...