Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Governor Averell Harriman all followed the same line when they turned their attention to the Republicans. The G.O.P., they said, has turned the U.S. over to big business, destroyed the country's reputation abroad, and ruined the Farmers at home. But it was former President Harry Truman who used the hardest language against the G.O.P. President Dwight Eisenhower's Administration, said Truman, is "taking this country to hell...
...concomitants of the Cold War has been the increased concern with which the Government has treated the loyalty of its civil servants. The efficacy of the Truman Administration's security program was the subject of a bitter campaign battle in 1952. When President Eisenhower took office, he immediately ordered that Federal loyalty programs be strengthened, empowering individual Department and Agency heads to remove subversives from Government service. Despite this revision of the security setup, the loyalty of government workers remains a controversial issue...
Weekday (Mon.-Fri. 10 a.m.-6 p.m., NBC). Margaret Truman, Mike Wallace put together a day-long show of news music, drama, chatter, oddities...
Convalescing from writer's cramp after a marathon of autographing some 4,000 copies of the first volume of his memoirs in Kansas City, Harry S. Truman visited Mississippi's Gulf Coast. Asked if the second volume of his reminiscences, to be published next February, will stir up any fuss, jaunty Author Truman grinned: "I might have to go live in Timbuktu...
...their Manhattan supplier for more champagne, donated by Madison Square Garden President James Norris and Sports Promoter Art Wirtz. After supper, TV's Bergen ($64,000 Question) Evans auctioned off letters and manuscripts by such literary titans as John Masefield, George Bernard Shaw. Thomas Wolfe, Harry S. Truman. Lannan put up his own copy (published in Florence in a limited 1928 edition) of Lady Chatterley's Lover. In all, Lannan estimated the day's take...