Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colorado Attorney John Carroll, 53, an oldtime Denver cop and onetime legislative adviser to President Truman, beat Denver's young Mayor Quigg Newton for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator. Then Carroll braced him self for an inevitable bang-up final campaign against Republican Lieutenant Governor Gordon Allott...
Love from Harry. There was no genuine business before the national commit tee. The occasion was just an excuse to give the fall campaign a rousing sendoff, to hold informal clinics on the health of the party, and to coach freshmen candidates in the fine art of campaigning. Harry Truman, the party's oracle of optimism, was unable to attend the meeting (his doctor has ordered him not to do any politicking this fall). But Harry Truman thumped his first tom-tom, with a nostalgic give-em-hell letter to Democratic Chairman Steve Mitchell...
...once said the Republican 80th Congress was the second worst in our history," wrote Truman, "but it has now been surpassed-in the wrong direction-by the Republican Sard ... It behooves the American people, I think, to give Mr. Eisenhower a Democratic Congress and hope that we can save him from the misdeeds of his own party...
Overall military expenditure is now running $3.4 billion less than in 1952 (the last full year of the Truman regime, midway in the Korean war). But newsmen asked why nonmilitary spending is $505 million higher than in 1952. Humphrey explained this as "uncontrollable costs"-that is, costs that legislation forces up or prevents from being pared. And most of the increase came from three more or less sacrosanct categories: agriculture price supports, housing and veterans...
...Night's Dream, with Mendelssohn's music and Moira Shearer's dancing; Graham Greene's The Living Room; Lunatics and Lovers, a satire on sex plays, by Sidney (Dead End) Kingsley ; Portrait of a Lady, an adaptation of the Henry James novel, with Jennifer Jones; Truman Capote's musical, The House of Flowers, with Pearl Bailey; Sam & Bella Spewack's new comedy, Festival, starring Vanessa Brown; G.B. Shaw's Saint Joan, with Jean Arthur; Sayonara: A Japanese Romance, a musical adaptation of James A. Michener's novel by Josh Logan, Paul Osborn...