Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...read with great interest the wise comments of those sages of the Democratic Party -Truman, Butler & Kroll-assembled at French Lick, Ind. [Sept. 5]. They are so right; the present Administration is sadly out of step. The Republicans have brought on a depression (with employment at an alltime high and unemployment at a new low) and have no regard for human needs-they have permitted prices to increase 0.3% while merely increasing take-home pay by a lousy $3.84 per week .. . They are demagogues that misrepresent by reporting what takes place at foreign conferences instead of allowing the American public...
Yearning for Action. Senior Democratic spokesman was former President Harry Truman. "Misrepresentation . . . demagoguery!" were among his characterizations of the Eisenhower record. Truman said that his successor "has never missed a chance to befuddle the real issues in every speech he reads . . . This Administration has contributed little to the art of government except perhaps in its use of publicity and advertising techniques...
...Dickerman Williams, a Manhattan lawyer, in an article, "Problems of the Fifth Amendment," first printed by the Fordham Law Review and now being distributed by the Fund for the Republic. Williams, onetime law clerk to Chief Justice William H. Taft, and general counsel for the Commerce Department in the Truman Administration, starts with John Marshall's 1807 ruling in the treason trial of Aaron Burr. Called as a witness was Burr's secretary, a Mr. Willie, who was asked if he had understood a cipher message purportedly written by Burr. Willie refused to answer the question, citing...
...loyalty board] inquired about reading habits, and found out that the employee seldom strayed beyond the sports page. He was asked what headlines attracted his attention and whether he followed the U.N. . . . Then followed questions about the purpose of the Korean war, the nature of the Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, the New York Communist trial, and tidelands oil . . . One member of the board brought out that the employee [during the Korean war] dated Japanese girls. Another member tried to establish the fact that the father sought to be patriarchal in his relations with the employee, as fathers were...
Chairman Feinberg's air of unhurried assurance belies a dozen outside activities. He heads Brandeis University's board of trustees, directs fund-raising for causes ranging from the Truman library to the United Jewish Appeal. In his spare hours Feinberg finds time (and an opportunity to display Catalina Bermuda shorts) for golf with his red-haired wife, also likes to swim, play squash,' handball and gin rummy. He has few expensive tastes beyond 60? cigars and conservative, $200 custom-made suits, says: "I drive the oldest Cadillac in Westchester...