Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...politicians, the report had another sharp point. Its flat comparisons with the Truman Administration were a resounding reply to the old Democratic slogan of 1952: "Don't let them take it away." Clearly, the Administration believed that it had found a positive, workable G.O.P. economic philosophy, and fully intended to take the offensive with it in the fall elections...
...level, needed in wartime to encourage food production in the face of shortages and inflation, was due to go out within two years after President Truman declared war's end in 1946. But farm-bloc Congressmen of both parties found that 90% was the sweetest manna in the political crib. Democrats conveniently forgot that in prewar 1938, Congress set the basic-crop price-support floor at only 52%; retrospectively, they sold 90% supports as a New Deal measure. Every two years, Congress extended the 90% supports, and farm surpluses piled up in Government storage houses. Example:the U.S. owns...
...Secretary of War from 1936 to 1940 (whom F.D.R. sent packing to make room for Henry L. Stim-son). Democrat Woodring's letter, dated June 23, 1954 and addressed to New York Businessman Robert Harris, accused George C. Marshall of selling out Nationalist China under orders from the Truman Administration, and added: "I can tell you that he would sell out his grandmother for personal advantage...
...Brooklyn courtroom last week, Joseph D. Nunan Jr. settled a long-overdue bill the hard way. Nunan, onetime Commissioner of Internal Revenue for Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman (1944-47), listened in silence as Federal Judge Walter Bruchhausen sentenced him to five years in the penitentiary and fined him $15,000 for evading $91,086 in income taxes. In passing sentence-one of the stiffest ever handed down for tax evasion-Judge Bruchhausen took official cognizance of Joe Nunan's old position as top tax collector of the land. "The court does not overlook the fact that the defendant...
Shortly after dawn cracked over the waking town of Independence, Harry Truman, in his first public sally since his illness, popped out of his house, strolled a block to become the day's third voter at his precinct in Missouri's primaries...