Word: trumaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...especially Texas oil and gas men-is the so-called natural gas bill, which, if it became law, would cut down the power of the Federal Government to regulate gas prices. Twice passed by Congress, the bill was twice done to death in the White House: President Truman vetoed it in 1950; President Eisenhower vetoed it in 1956 after South Dakota's Republican Senator Francis Case announced that a gas lobbyist had tried to bribe him. Last week the bill's backers were ready to write it off for at least another year. This time, not a proffered...
...Roosevelt's one attempt to carry out his campaign pledge for economy: a half billion cut in federal spending, mostly in veteran's benefits. But with NRA and its $3 billion relief provision, Byrd broke with Roosevelt-and stayed broken, both with F.D.R. and his successor, Harry Truman, who once snapped that there were "too many Byrds in the Senate...
...fragments from a ten-hour interview spaced over four days last February in a quiet cottage in the Florida Keys. The ten hours of film and a 620-page transcript of the whole interview, the first such portrait of an ex-President ever done, will become part of the Truman Library at Independence, Mo. For speaking freely, Truman asked only to put the lid (for his lifetime) on some 45 minutes of the conversation, covering half a dozen such questions as why he dragged his feet behind Adlai Stevenson in the 1956 campaign. From the rest, except for some locutions...
Never before has a figure of Truman's historical size let down his hair at such candid, colloquial length before so vast an audience. On the Missouri Waltz, he said: "I don't give a damn about it, but I can't say it out loud because it's the song of Missouri. It's as bad as The Star-Spangled Banner so far as music is concerned." A bright-eyed 72 when the film was shot. Truman favored posterity with his sunburst smile and flashes of his shrewdness, wisdom and trove of history...
...President Truman and his brother and sister inherited about 600 acres of Missouri farmland from their mother. In various deals since then, the Trumans have sold all but 40 acres at undisclosed prices. When Truman closed the most recent deal last month, selling 220 acres for a housing development to be known as Truman Village, the value of the land was locally estimated as $1,000 or more an acre...