Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prince Rainier took Grace Kelly for his bride. While Mrs. Choplin kept her eye on far-off Monaco, linemen toiled away equipping her house with extra telephone wires to accommodate a New York Times reporter who had arranged to use the Choplin home as a communications center on Margaret Truman's wedding...
...convention will handle all its business on Saturday, electing permanent officers, discussing a platform, and so forth. After Butler's address, the nominations will begin. Besides strong contingents expected for the leading candidates, Stevenson and Kefauver, the names of Symington, Harriman, Lausche, and Truman will be thrown into the vote scramble...
Such a presidential group would have several successful precedents. In the past, presidential commissions have helped change aimless political bickering into constructive action on national problems. For many years, legislation on civil rights and international trade problems staggered in a void of informed opinion. The Report of President Truman's Commission on Civil Rights, however helped create favorable attitudes for local action to eliminate discrimination in employment, education, and housing...
...Democratic Party in Massachusetts has had an excellent record in civil rights. The late Maurice J. Tobin, former Governor and later Secretary of Labor under President Truman, was a prime mover in the creation of the state Fair Employment Practices Commission, while the Hon. James L. O'Dea, Jr., House Majority Whip, led the fight to abolish segregation in the state National Guard. The civil rights stand adopted at our convention called upon the Massachusetts delegates to the Democratic National Convention "to fight for a strong Civil Rights plank in the party's National Platform...
...cold stone wall. Georgia's Dick Russell lamented that secrets told Senators in executive session generally trickle to the press. Although they are ordinarily no friends of the Administration, Missouri's Stuart Symington and Kentucky's Alben Barkley, both National Security Council members under Harry Truman, went along with President Eisenhower's view that CIA is "too sensitive" to be watchdogged. By the time the bipartisan opposition had finished, ten sponsors had backed out on Mansfield, and the Senate, 59-27, turned down his resolution...