Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years ... to decide what to do with its garbage." Texas' Attorney General John Ben Shepperd drew a laugh by citing a public-opinion poll, which showed that 45% of sampled Texans are dead set on keeping segregation, only 14% favor desegregation. The same polling agency, said Shepperd. predicted Truman's 1948 election. Queried Justice Felix Frankfurter: "That makes it scientific...
...Democratic Leader Johnson had had high hopes of swinging George to the side of the tax cutters. When he failed, he learned only what others (notably Presidents Roosevelt and Truman) had learned before him-that Walter Franklin George is a highly independent man. But unlike most political independents, he steers clear of the extremes of left and right...
Last week Washington's Federal Judge Alexander Holtzoff (who upheld Harry Truman's seizure of the steel industry in 1952, and was reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court) ruled on the case. Judge Holtzoff pointed out that the Walsh-Healey Act permits the Department of Labor to set minimum wages by "locality," but said that blanketing the whole U.S. under that term is a "tortured interpretation."* His conclusion: the Labor Department cannot set nationwide minimum wage rates under the Walsh-Healey...
...Communist conspiracy directed from Moscow. It was a single-mindedness that in the 1930s exasperated his countrymen (who wanted him to fight Japanese instead of Communists), in the 1940s, General Joseph Stilwell (who wanted him to arm Communist troops to fight in Burma) and President Harry Truman (who insisted that he coalesce with what Secretary of State Byrnes termed "the so-called Communists"). While many bright young foxes were finding that the grapes were bitter, Chiang Kaishek, who himself has erred grievously in other things, both by omission and commission, clung to his hedgehog truth...
...game in which garrulous George Allen, Franklin Roosevelt's political handyman, Harry Truman's White House jester and Dwight Eisenhower's golf companion, was Cumberland's captain. As George tells it, he made Cumberland's best run: "I only lost six yards...