Word: truman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York Mayor John V. Lindsay, playing a flute, leads all the rats out of Harlem. Authoritative sources say Mao Tse-tung is dying after an attack of German measles. For the 21st time, Harvard fails to award an honorary degree to Harry S Truman. Honorary degrees are awarded to Margaret Truman: "She rose from obscurity to musical eminence," Thomas E. Dewey: "A stunning campaigner, a flawless Chief Executive," and to 22 people chosen at random from the Boston telephone directory...
...Harry Truman, who knows what it is to fight a foreign enemy under a bombardment of domestic criticism, had some sharp-tongued answers last week for the current generation of dissenters. Lyndon Johnson, he suggested, should simply ignore criticism of his Viet Nam policy by the likes of Senators Robert and Edward Kennedy. "They are outsiders, just as I am," snapped Truman. "They have no more business sticking their noses in than I have." As for draft-card burners, said Harry, "all they want is front-page attention...
...pestilential vapours." By 1835, control of the conspiracy had passed to the Pope, whose Jesuits were reported "prowling about all parts of the United States in disguise" and conjugating in clandestine convents with unnatural nuns. By 1951, according to Senator McCarthy, the perennial enemy had planted agents in the Truman Cabinet. By 1958, according fo "detailed evidence" collected by the founder of the John Birch Society, President Eisenhower had actually been converted into a "dedicated, conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy." And soon after that, still others with inside information reported that supreme command of the U.S. armed forces...
Soon after New Year's, Johnson will have to decide whether to 1) stall, 2) ask Congress to erase all or part of the income tax reductions for which he battled last year, 3) seek new revenues from excess profit taxes and imposts on luxuries (as Harry Truman did to finance the Korean War) or 4) try a relatively painless palliative such as increasing the amount of income tax withheld from paychecks or accelerating corporate tax payments. Whatever the solution, catching up with the rabbit may not be the easiest of encounters for Lyndon Johnson...
...Board now has three economists: Maisel, J. Dewey Daane and George Mitchell. A group of businessmen led by two former Treasury Secretaries, Truman's John Snyder and Eisenhower's Robert Anderson, are busy rallying industry to oppose the inclusion of another economist on the Board. They want business to urge on the Administration a single business candidate for the vacancy to insure that the Board's complexion remains as it is-and that Bill Martin stays where...