Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...News to Me." But not even this unlooked-for embarrassment of St. Lawrence Island deterred Vyacheslav Molotov from the momentum of his moderation. Molotov joined in the U.N.'s biggest hand for Harry Truman, who said of another unwarranted Communist attack-Korea: "That aggression was met as it had to be met." Molotov next did the extraordinary and un-Russian thing of requesting a press conference, and ably fenced questions and answers for half an hour with 100 U.S. and foreign correspondents. When one U.S. reporter asked him about the incident of St. Lawrence Island, Molotov replied...
...national interest on the other. Eisenhower, with his long experience of the military staff system, is familiar with this fundamental problem. He respects his department heads far more than Franklin Roosevelt respected his, but he stands less in awe of his military and diplomatic chiefs than did Harry Truman. Naturally, this is especially true in Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson's field, where Eisen hower operates with great self-confidence. Unlike President Truman, who preferred to have the National Security Council prepare a recommendation that he could adopt, Eisenhower prefers to have the NSC brief him in full...
Newsmen tried to pump the Democrats' No. 1 eligible bachelor, New Jersey's handsome Governor Robert Meyner, 46, about a recent visitor at his seaside house in Island Beach, N.J. His guest: the Democrats' No. 1 eligible bachelor girl, Soprano-Comedienne Margaret Truman, 31. Far from hinting at romance, Bob Meyner snorted: "I don't publish my guest list...
Washington's stone gothic Foundry Methodist Church* is a 141-year-old landmark of the national capital. Abraham Lincoln and seven other Presidents (John Quincy Adams, James Madison, Rutherford B. Hayes, James K. Polk, William McKinley, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman) occasionally worshiped there; Franklin Roosevelt and Sir Winston Churchill went there on Christmas Day in 1941 to pray. Last week Foundry's pastor for the past 31 years, silver-thatched Dr. Frederick Brown Harris, preached his farewell sermon. At the compulsory retirement age of 72, well-loved Dr. Harris was leaving Foundry to give more time...
Former President Harry S. Truman and Charles E. Bohlen '27 will probably receive honorary degrees from the University at the Commencement Exercises and address the Alumni at its luncheon on Thursday, June 16. Both Truman and Bohlen were unavailable for comment on the possibility of their selection...