Word: truman
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...People would ask her why she was a Democrat," MacFarquhar says, "She would always point to Roosevelt and Truman...
President Conant is one of nine prominent scientists and engineers appointed by President Harry S. Truman to the general advisory committee for the Control Commission on atomic energy...
During his time at UPI, Mack says one of his most memorable interviews came when he was awakened by a six o'clock phone call in a New York City hotel room. The call came from UPI, demanding that he interview former President Harry S. Truman, who was staying in the city at the Carlisle Hotel. Truman was known to take early-morning walks through the Manhattan streets...
...later. In 1956 he turned it from a weekly into the nation's largest black daily, with a circulation of roughly 25,000. By using his influence with President Franklin Roosevelt, Sengstacke arranged for the hiring of the first black White House correspondent. After World War II, President Harry Truman appointed Sengstacke, a vocal critic of discrimination in the military, to the committee charged with eradicating race barriers in the armed forces. Sengstacke also pushed the Brooklyn Dodgers to sign Jackie Robinson. Sengstacke was considered close to Chicago's Democratic mayors, but refused Mayor Richard J. Daley's entreaties that...
...that he could have been thinking about it on that fateful night in Florida last March. Yet his unlucky stumble on golfer Greg Norman's stairs has served at least one purpose. Let the record show that it has landed him in the upright, three-legged company of Harry Truman, Franklin Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Ah, but does the cane make...