Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Communism at Home. "It shouldn't be an issue which would ever divide Americans. [But] if Mr. Stevenson does not repudiate the statement of Mr. Truman, who still says that Alger Hiss was not a Communist and not a spy, then we have no choice but to discuss the issue and let the people decide whether we or our opponents are better qualified to handle this difficult problem...
...Colorado, Harry Truman's Agriculture Secretary Charles F. Brannan, author of the direct-subsidy, surplus-building Brannan Plan, discovered that his popularity with parity-conscious wheat growers and other farmers was not enough to offset ex-Representative John A. Carroll's edge in Carroll's home city of Denver, lost the Democratic senatorial nomination to Carroll 60,494 to 62,391. Carroll, defeated in the 1954 Senate race, faces ex-Governor Dan Thornton, 45, ardent Ikeman, in November...
Judge Minton had a heart attack in 1945, four years before Harry Truman named him to the highest court. He recovered, but developed pernicious anemia about a year later. "It's hard for me to walk more than a block, and this last term I had to take to a cane," he said. "My knees buckle and I lose my balance. It's pretty depressing. This thing keeps pecking away at me. Worst of all, it's gone to my brain. It affects my power to concentrate and think and retain arguments in my mind...
...Excuse." One of Eden's gravest problems was the resistance of the U.S. to any but peaceful means of settling the crisis. But if the resistance of the U.S. to force was a handicap, it was also a tool for agile Sir Anthony. During the Korean war, the Truman Administration employed with some success the "British excuse"-the argument that the U.S. could not engage in all-out war with Red China without alienating, perhaps even losing, Britain and other allies. Now Eden can answer charges that his threats were empty blasts by offering Parliament the "American excuse...
Died. Anthony Harry (Tony) Leviero, 50, hard-plugging New York Times Washington correspondent (at the White House and Pentagon), who won a Pulitzer Prize for his Administration-leaked newsbeat on President Truman's 1950 Wake Island meeting with General MacArthur; of a heart attack; in Pittsfield, Mass...