Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meetings were an epic of unlucky timing. Also meeting in Washington was the American Society of Newspaper Editors, getting the big speakers and claiming the big, black headlines. Busy being the father of the bride in Missouri was the top Democratic crowd-getter, Harry Truman, who used to pack the armory (capacity 5,000). Away in Monaco at another wedding was Party Treasurer Matt McCloskey, the man most immediately concerned with Democratic fundraising. These key absences, and a number of others, left Paul Butler and the Democratic comptroller, Mrs. Mary Zirkle, to explain the financial crisis...
...feel that marriage vows are sacred," memoired Margaret Truman recently, "and I hope that mine will be spared the hurly-burly attending a news event." Last week in Trinity Episcopal Church at Independence, Mo., where her parents were married 36 years ago, Margaret, now 32, saw her hope accomplished; she became Mrs. Elbert Clifton Daniel Jr. with more dignity and less hurly-burly than a former President's daughter and TV-radio star could expect...
...wedding day burst fair and warm; Margaret Truman walked out of the 91-year-old house a last time on the arm of her ever-punctual, this time solemn father. A crowd had circled the Truman gate to admire her gown of antique Venetian lace, pale beige in color because "white doesn't become me." Margaret paused to smile at them, then ducked into a limousine for the five-minute, six-block journey to Trinity Church. "She looks beautiful, Mr. Truman," called a voice from the crowd. "Thank you, thank you very much," said the farther of the bride...
After the wedding a select but friendly 250 gathered at the Truman home for a reception. After 30 minutes in the receiving line, bride and groom slipped away to catch a train for the first leg of their honeymoon in Nassau. Margaret Truman had not been the only important bride of the week, but when it was all said and done, hers was the wedding that gave the U.S. that next-door feeling even if the nation stood on tiptoe to catch every detail of the other...
When Chairman Paul Butler says the Democratic party "need make no apologies for a method of selection which produced the nomination of Harry S. Truman" [in 1944, when Wallace was dropped], he is talking like a narrow-minded politician. Roosevelt had far, far less part in picking Truman than did Hannegan and Flynn, two professional politicians working closely with Edwin W. Pauley, an oil man, over a period of several months...