Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wall Street Journal last October) that almost any other candidate, the late Robert A. Taft included, could have won, albeit by a smaller margin than Eisenhower's. The nation was ready to take any Republican v. any Democrat because of angry opposition to a long list of disturbing Truman Administration policies, topped by Korea...
...broad consensus of agreement, he added, is insufficient in respect to questions of foreign policy, where the policy of both the Eisenhower and Truman Administrations, dating from 1947, is losing relevance...
...Received, from a Senate subcommittee on juvenile delinquency (Estes Kefauver, chairman), a report declaring that violent movies are potential "triggers" for juvenile delinquency. ¶ Learned, to its general surprise, that John Maragon, a crony of Harry Truman's cronies who was convicted of perjury in 1951 in connection with the influence-peddling scandals (TIME, Aug. 15, 1949 et seq.), went to work last week as a $1.61-an-hour laborer in the House of Representatives' folding room, where printed matter is made ready for mailing. Pennsylvania's Democratic Representative Herman P. Eberharter said that he had written...
...Dallas Morning Newsman clipped an editorial out of the News, hailing Bride-to-Be Margaret Truman, and sent it to the bride's father, Harry Truman. Back came a note of tempered gratitude in which Truman gruffed: "I suppose there has to be a first time for everything." But of the News, a Democratic paper that used to belabor Truman often, the ex-President of the U.S. huffed: "That paper has treated me like a pickpocket...
...Harry S. Truman (Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Speech to the Overseas Press Club...