Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Good Partner. There were some com plaints, for example, that the U.S. was throwing its weight around too blatantly. The President seemed to think that the U.S. ought to talk less about its "leadership" (a word dear to Harry Truman), while leading more effectively. "I think we should talk less about American lead ership in the world," he said, "because we are trying to be a good partner . . . We want to do what is right, what is just and what is decent and try to get [other nations] going along because they believe in the same things ... A platoon leader...
...Washington last week a federal grand jury charged Henry ("The Dutchman") Grunewald with ten counts of perjury before a congressional investigating committee and a Washington grand jury. Influence-Peddler Grunewald, said the grand jury, had lied about his tax-fixing activities in the halcyon days of the Truman Administration. Sample charge: Grunewald swore before a House Ways and Means Subcommittee in 1953 that he had never discussed tax matters with his pal, Daniel Bolich,* although Bolich, then Assistant Commissioner of Internal Revenue, shared Grunewald's lavish hospitality and his Washington hotel suite for more than a year...
Last January President Eisenhower announced that his Administration planned to reduce the deficit for the 1954 fiscal year from the whopping Truman estimate of $9,900,000,000 to $3,274,000,000. Last week the President happily revealed that the deficit had been cut $245,000,000 below his own estimate...
...outlays for defense and mutual security. The Defense Department alone reduced military spending by $1.4 billion; mutual-aid spending was down $680 million. All told, to offset tax and revenue cuts and still surpass the President's goal, the Administration had to stay $10 billion below the Truman estimates...
...said, that Government supplies were being expended at the races. Moreover, some airmen complained that they were forced to take blocks of tickets and to work "voluntary" extra duty. Republican Scrivner, an old artillery file (he served in World War I in the 129th Field Artillery, Captain Harry Truman's outfit), asked the General Accounting Office to investigate. Last week he released its report, a sharp strafing of LeMay's position...