Word: trumaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them (in personal missions) from impulsive counterattacks, helped build the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, recommended U.S. support for Nationalist China's defense of the offshore Quemoy and Matsu islands. He outargued liberal critics who urged the recognition of Red China, drew his moral from the record of the Truman Administration. "The U.S.," said he, "does bear a very large part of the responsibility for the loss of China to the Communists. If we had applied the policies we used in China to our European allies, we would have lost them...
Cheerful, chunky (5 ft. 5 in., 196 lbs.) Democrat DiSalle, a man of notable affability even in his harried term (1950-52) as President Truman's Price Administrator, is determined not to fail. Already he has irritated educators, businessmen and politicians with a tighten-up-and-tax budget. And last week he incurred the wrath of Ohio's powerful A.F.L.-C.I.O., which backed him heavily in his campaign last fall...
...been eased onto the payroll by Pennsylvania's late, sympathetic Democrat Herman Eberharter. With little ado, the committee decided that the nation could henceforth do without the services of brassy John Maragon, 65, onetime Kansas City bootblack, who connived his way to a reputation as one of the Truman era's sleaziest five-percenters...
...finds himself occupied by a passing flock of pigeons. Best spot gag: Hope saunters over to a small boy who is playing the piano at a Missouri wingding, pats his head, gently inquires, "What's your name, son?" The boy looks up, peering uncertainly through thick glasses. "Harry Truman," he says...
Liberals can point to Truman's victory in 1948 in spite of the four southern states that voted for the Dixiecrat Thurmond-Wright ticket. Further, the prospect of a party split has its appetizing aspects for the liberal wing of the party. A Democratic victory in 1960 achieved without the South could deprive these rebels of patronage and important committee places. This exclusion of the Dixiecrats from top party positions did not occur in 1948, but there is greater pressure in the party now for a tougher attitude towards splitting the recalcitrant South...