Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into the beer-and-Braves tumult of Milwaukee, Wis. one day last week roared Harry Truman, ready to start Round One of his battle for Adlai Stevenson. With one Truman-type swing, he hit his own party's cause just above the belt. He sat down at a TV panel show with Dr. Anthony T. Bouscaren, professor of political science at Marquette University...
...thus dragged his aromatic old red herring into the ring trailing the Hiss case behind it, Harry went on to assure Professor Bouscaren that neither Harry Dexter White nor Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, leaders of a Red cabal among federal employees during and after World War II, were spies. Said Truman: "Neither of them were guilty of anything...
Moving on to Washington at week's end to lash out at Dwight D. Eisenhower and hole up for consultations with Old Crony Harry Vaughan, Truman got to talking about his place in the Democratic campaign. "I've told 'em not to send me any place where I could do them any harm," he said. New Jersey's Democratic U.S. Representative T. James Tumulty thought he knew just the place. "Send him," he telegraphed Adlai Stevenson, "on a slow boat to China...
...press conference Aug. 5, 1948 Truman said: "[The investigations] are simply a red herring. [The Republicans in Congress] are using this as a red herring to keep from doing what they ought...
Gratefully, F.D.R. appointed Minton in 1941 to the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, where Minton toned down his predilection for fiddling with the Constitution and did a fair and workmanlike job. Eight years later, when Harry Truman appointed him to the U.S. Supreme Court, he granted that he had been "a strong partisan" in the Senate, but had put all that behind him. Returning last month from a six-week jaunt to Europe, Minton raised legal eyebrows by reverting to partisanship, endorsing Candidate Adlai Stevenson as "a very able man" and denigrating Candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower...