Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Former President Harry S. Truman will speak to a capacity crowd tonight in MIT's Kresge Auditorium on the topic of "The Office of the Presidency." Truman's address is scheduled to begin at approximately...
...that "I think it would be a mistake to let the factor of race enter in at all; I think Judge Hastie would agree." An additional deterrent to Hastie's appointment pointed out by Braucher, is the fact that he was appointed to his present post by former President Truman, and he added, "there aren't many Republicans on the court...
...gifts" to Turney Gratz, an RFC official who became one of Boyle's top national committee aides. Assistant RFC Loan Manager Frank Prince and Matt Connelly. Other evidence showed that White House Personnel Aide Donald Dawson, one of the subjects of a Senate Committee report (which Harry Truman denounced as "asinine"), had exercised a marvelous influence over RFC. A fascinating note of the investigation: Dawson had spent more than 20 rent-free days in $3O-per-day accommodations in Miami Beach's Saxony Hotel, another RFC borrower. During the course of the investigation, RFC Directors Walter Dunham...
...Clark (himself the subject of much congressional criticism)-who was soon to be promoted to the U.S. Supreme Court. By the time Caudle appeared before Senate investigators to start blowing explosive soap bubbles around Washington, former Democratic National Chairman J. Howard McGrath happened to be Attorney General. On Truman's order, a wholesale Government cleanup was ordered. To undertake the job, Attorney General McGrath hired New York Lawyer Newbold Morris, an enthusiastic, if inept, reformer. Morris started off with a big bang-by investigating his immediate superior, J. Howard McGrath. This was more than flesh or spirit could bear...
That was just about as direct an action as Harry Truman, who is now talking about Eisenhower racketeers, ever took to clean up the dirty dealings in his own Administration. So bad was the Truman Administration's record that the Democratic Party's 1952 nominee, Adlai Ewing Stevenson of Illinois, tacitly acknowledged, in the famous letter that Harry Truman never has forgiven, that he would clear out "the mess in Washington." The Adlai Stevenson of 1956 must have suffered a considerable lapse in memory when he opened up his Pandora's box on the corruption issue...