Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democratic Convention of 1912 to help his father wrest the presidential nomination away from Woodrow Wilson. During his twelve years in the Senate, Clark alternately fought and supported the New Deal, in 1945 accepted an appointment to a U.S. circuit judgeship from Good Friend and Fellow Missourian Harry S. Truman, best man at Clark's second marriage...
...regard to Clark arose in a case involving an Orlando, Fla. bond dealer named Roy E. Crummer. In 1944 Crummer was indicted for mail fraud in connection with two municipal bond issues. Crummer's trial lawyer brought into the case Attorney Francis P. Whitehair, a crony of Harry Truman's crony Donald Dawson. In turn...
...cried he. "I will defend this to the end [even though] it may cost me ten times as much as paying off-or 100 times . . . I'm mad . . . I'll fight to the death-even if I have to fly back here [i.e., London] from California." Harry Truman, after 19 days in the Kansas City Hospital, where he had survived a major operation and a dangerous infection (TIME. June 28 et seq.), checked out at 5:30 one morning, drove home to a quiet breakfast on the screened porch...
...this] vital testimony, Senator McCarthy could report mismanagement approaching sabotage . . . And the world's two largest transmitters now lie useless in Government warehouses." Swallows Come Home. Was there ever a time when McCarthy could have been stopped? Woltman thinks it would have been a simple matter for President Truman to have done so when McCarthy first sent him a well-publicized wire about the State Department's "57 card-holding Communists." Said Woltman: "In a very real sense, [McCarthy] was the creature of his adversaries. The Senator can thank President Truman, as much as anyone, for his phenomenal...
...Truman would have taken the play away from Mr. McCarthy." As a result, said Woltman, McCarthy-has been able to exaggerate and confuse the entire issue of Communism. Said Woltman: "The fact is, there's nothing today like the Red climate in America of ten years ago. The public is alert to the Communist conspiracy . . . The party-liner, who operated openly-and brazenly -in official circles in the 1930s, has disappeared. Communism has lost most of the intellectuals . . . Yet Senator McCarthy continues to use the blunderbuss, firing in all directions at once . . . By his excesses . . . his thumb...