Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Feet to the Fire. The best support Democrats had for their argument was the testimony of Atomic Energy Commissioner Thomas Murray, the AEC's lone remaining Truman appointee. He told the Joint Committee that some features of the contract did not serve the best interests of the U.S. AEChairman Lewis Strauss decided to negotiate for contract changes which Murray wanted, knowing he needed Murray's approval to take some of the steam out of the Democratic attack...
...date fully expected to see a contingent of Astors and Vanderbilts (nobody had told her that opening night at the Met is, more and more, a circus, less and less a real social event). But the young man saw quite a few celebrities: an ex-Miss America, Margaret Truman, Eddie Fisher and his Debbie, and that blonde sagging under her jewelry-that was Hope Hampton...
Thurmond, as did most of the state's newspapers. The kiss of death for Brown came when Harry Vaughan told a Washington newspaperman that Harry Truman was for Brown because of Thurmond's 1948 disloyalty to the party (TIME, Nov. i). The vote: Thurmond 139,106, Brown 80,956. After the count, Senator-elect Thurmond renewed a promise: he will resign in 1956 to meet all comers in a proper primary...
...long-sought goal. The son of E. H. Harriman, Wall Street financier and railroad (Union Pacific) magnate, Averell had chosen public service as the field in which he would make his own mark. In 20 years he had held 15 major appointive jobs* in the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations, but he had nev er been elected to any office. He is a doctrinaire New Dealer, but has a name, background and manner as unproletarian as Franklin Roosevelt...
...enough, the results of the gubernatorial races have proved a better index of a party's Presidential potential than the Congressional races. When Democrats have been successful in the mid-term races for the governorships, the Democratic Presidential candidate has never lost his election. Yet no Democrat except Harry Truman has ever been able to win in a nation which has elected mostly Republican governors two years before...