Word: trumaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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POLITICS : Democrat Harry Truman, appearing at the National Press Club last week, had explained his estranged relationship with Ike this way: "I gave him hell when he didn't knock [Indiana's now-retiring Republican Senator] Jenner off the platform after he called General Marshall a traitor.* He's been mad at me ever since-and I don't give a damn." Said the President: "I think that most of you have found that I have had a little bit too much sense to waste my time getting mad at anybody . . . And to say that...
Under examination was a manifesto issued by the liberal-dominated Democratic National Advisory Council (among the members: Adlai Stevenson, Harry Truman, New York's Governor Averell Harriman and ex-Senator Herbert Lehman). The council urged greatly expanded federal programs in social security, health, education, agriculture, public works and welfare, area redevelopment and urban renewal, did not attempt to put a price tag on the proposals. Virginia's economy-minded Senator Harry Flood Byrd-no member of the council-did. His estimate: $5 billion or $6 billion a year...
...Democratic Advisory Council could not have cared less, because it was operating on a theory-one often espoused by the British Labor Party and advocated in the U.S. by Leon Keyserling, chairman of President Truman's Council of Economic Advisers. Criticizing Republicans for allowing "persistent inflation," the Democratic Advisory Council manifesto said...
Died. Anabel Taylor, 78, wife of Myron C. Taylor, retired (1938) board chairman of U.S. Steel, personal envoy to the Vatican of Presidents Roosevelt and Truman; in Manhattan...
Breakfast at Tiffany's, by Truman Capote. Hardly anyone could resist the ribald appeal of Holly Golightly, one of fiction's most endearing bad little good girls...