Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Deviltry Halted. Despite the scourge. the 83rd Congress had an extraordinary record of accomplishment. More than a decade ago, domestic legislation had been laid aside when Dr. Win-the-War, as F.D.R. phrased it, replaced Dr. New Deal. After the war. Harry Truman adopted the tactic of asking Congress for what he knew it would refuse. He berated the 80th Congress (Republican) as "do-nothing." The 81st and 82nd Congresses (Democratic) also did little...
...Democrats, by harshly throwing the Harry Dexter White case in Harry Truman's face...
...whether the Southern Democracy is about to join the Northern on the left side of the American political scene. The overwhelming majority of Democrats occupied that area in the first stages of the New Deal. But as its radicalism in creased, a movement which reached its peak under President Truman and the Fair Deal, many Southerners returned to the more moderate political philosophy of the Wilson Administration. The recent primaries in North Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee and Arkansas gave superficial evidence, at least, that the immunity of the Southern conservatives may soon be a thing of the past...
...would submerge the U.S. in a world government. Though there was substance in some of the attack, Kefauver won a smashing endorsement from the Democrats of Tennessee. In view of these events, it is not surprising that Democrats are wondering whether the Southern conservatives, whom neither a Roosevelt nor Truman could dislodge from office, are not now nearing the close of one of their chapters in political history...
...book and I once tore up its first version. "Generally I don't read my countrymen's books. In fact, I read little. At my age [56], I prefer to read Flaubert, Balzac, Cervantes' Don Quixote and the Bible . . . The few times I tried to read Truman Capote, I had to give up . . . His literature makes me nervous...