Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Weinberg is a former governor of the New York Stock Exchange and of the Investment Bankers Association of America. He has worked as an assistant to the administration of the Office of Defense Mobilization and in 1946 was awarded the Medal for Merit by President Truman...
Called in by the Truman Administration after the end of World War II, Dulles negotiated a peace treaty with Japan that was the soundest bit of diplomacy that he inherited when he became Secretary of State in 1953. The rest of his policy inheritance was jerry-built on emergency and crisis. Dulles' first aim was to build a foreign policy for the long haul. To replace fear as the glue of the free world's alliances, he said he wanted to develop a cement compounded of strength, understanding and cooperation. He has explained the difficulty of this operation: "The best...
Beat the Devil. John Huston and Truman Capote while away an hour and a half with one of the shaggiest stories ever put on film: the year's orneriest picture, and one of its funniest (TIME, March...
...year boomed to a close in a thunder of publicity for the big holiday releases, two pictures stood out as notable Hollywood productions-and neither was made in Hollywood. John Huston's Beat the Devil, written by Truman Capote and shot in Italy, was a magnificent leg-pull: a kind of dipsoid tirade of brilliant comic invention, played with a cross-eyed, morning-after charm by a fine cast (Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre). On the Waterfront, Elia Kazan's burly piece of camereering along the docksides of Hoboken, had excellent photography, though the drama...
...Philadelphia for the pleasant chore of picking up $70,000 contributed to his library fund (TIME, June 21), Harry Truman told a banquet audience why he believes that presidential papers belong to the public. Said Librarian Truman: "Through the documents . . . you can find out, and the scholars of the future can find out, what the man in the White House at the time was thinking about when he did those things. It is very easy to be a Monday-morning quarterback and tell a man what he should have done...