Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spare That Oak. Cooper respects the oak of the law with druidical passion. He still bristles at the recollection of Franklin Roosevelt's court-packing plan or Harry Truman's use of "inherent power" to seize the steel mills. He is just as passionately opposed to attempts of his own party colleagues to rule by fiat or overlook the established law. Cooper was one of the first Senate Republicans to denounce Joe McCarthy openly. He is ferociously opposed to legislation permitting wiretapping by federal law-enforcement officers and to the removal of Fifth Amendment protection from reluctant witnesses...
...commanded every unit from platoon (45 men) to division (20,000) in combat, and led the first big Marine victory in the Pacific (on Guadalcanal, where his 1st Marine Regiment killed 1,000 Japanese overnight on the Tenaru River). Perhaps his hardest fight came after the war, when President Truman and Pentagon brass tried to make the Marines a lightweight police force...
...corps' 19th Commandant (1948-52), General Gates did battle. The turning point was Truman's letter denouncing the Marine "propaganda machine"; Gates took Truman's autographed picture down from his wall, and thousands of ex-marines leaped to the defense of the corps. Soon afterwards the President formally apologized to Gates, and the Marines' survival was assured. His Commandant's term at an end, Cliff Gates served out his time as chief of the Marine Corps Schools at Quantico, Va. This week old (60) Leatherneck Gates, D.S.C., Navy Cross, D.S.M., Legion of Merit, Silver Star...
...when President Truman called on him to be head of the National Research Development Board of the Military Establishment, Karl Compton retired as head of M.I.T. On the day the news broke, scores of students stopped him on campus to shake his hand ("It's nice.'' said he, "but they don't know how it hurts"). In 1949, on doctor's orders, he was forced to resign from the nation's top scientific post. He went back to M.I.T. as chairman of the corporation. "It is as true today," he once told a graduating...
Baseball to Bananas. Since the trucking business was down in the first half of this year, the big truck order is a gamble. But Riss, an old poker-playing crony of Harry Truman, has had a long career of cashing in on his gambles. He got into trucking by way of semi-pro baseball. On the strength of a flashy tryout for a team at Colorado Springs, he was touted as a new sensation...