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April 3 - President Truman signs the Foreign Assistance Act of 1948. It provides $5.3 billion for the European Recovery Program, also known as the Marshall Plan...
June 24 - President Truman signs the Selective Service Act, and the Republican National Convention nominates Gov. Thomas Dewey of New York for the presidency...
July 15 - The Democratic National Convention nominates President Truman for reelection and Sen. Alben Barkley for the vice presidency...
...homefront, the political air was full of accusations of communism, fueled by reports from the House Committee on Un-American Affairs. President Truman contests some of the findings, calling one a "red herring." But nearly two million federal employees are investigated, causing more than 500 to resign and nearly 100 to be dismissed...
...standards of today's Hollywood, The Truman Show is unusual in that it has many levels of meaning. In one sense it is an allegory about the ways in which a performer can be imprisoned by the demands, even love, of an audience. If you are a movie comedian who is graduating to more substantial roles but is still most famous for having made teenage boys laugh by pretending to talk with your buttocks, this is an allegory to which you can surely relate. "To me, it's the saddest thing in the world to see a comedian...