Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sounds coming from Democrats in the South, however, do not indicate that conservative sentiment for Harriman will run very deep. When the New York governor began to loom as a presidential prospect, Louisiana's Democratic Senator Allen J. Ellender cried: "Talk about giveaways; Harriman would go Eisenhower. Truman and Roosevelt one better. He would give away the Indian chief on top of the Capitol dome...
...Averell Harriman returned to his father's business: he became chair man of the board of the Union Pacific Railroad, and served in that post until 1946 (without a word being raised about conflicts of interest between the job and his position irt the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations...
...Anthony Eden and Vyacheslav Molotov in Moscow; with Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang in Cairo, and with Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin at Teheran; in 1944 he was with Stalin, Churchill and Eden in Moscow; in 1945 with Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin at Yalta, Harry Hopkins and Stalin in Moscow, Harry Truman, Churchill, Clement Attlee and Stalin at Potsdam. He missed only one of the big World War II conferences: the second Quebec Conference between Roosevelt and Churchill in September...
...nation were never so rampant as now." Thus, the American Civil Liberties Union last week summed up a report on the suppression of Government news by official agencies, usually hiding behind the subterfuge of classified information. Government secrecy is not a partisan issue, the report made clear; the Truman Administration was guilty of the same kind of suppression. But, it added, "invisible government is now worse than at any time in many years...
Died. Eddie Jacobson, 64, oldtime friend and onetime (1919-22) business partner of Harry S. Truman in their celebrated Kansas City haberdashery venture; of a heart attack; in Kansas City. As unofficial liaison man between President Truman and Zionist Leader Dr. Chaim Weizmann (later first Israeli President), Jacobson played a prominent role in the establishment of Israel...