Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Witness McCarthy seemed more than content to forgive old enemies and sting new ones. Again and again he needled Democrat Stuart Symington for talking over the Army v. McCarthy problem with Clark Clifford, onetime counsel for President Truman (TIME, June...
...enlisted in the Army as a private (a favorite camp story: when on cleanup detail, Private Gray carefully inspected each cigarette butt to determine how Camels were doing). Within seven years after his first camp cleanup detail, he was appointed Secretary of the Army by President Harry S. Truman. An intellectual, liberal Democrat, Gray is a poor target for critics who contend that there was an anti-intellectual basis for the decision that Oppenheimer is a security risk. His brief description of his job as chairman of the AEC board: "The most difficult assignment I ever...
...once the commissioners finished their statement, they disagreed sharply on current handling of the atomic program. The three Truman Administration holdovers (Henry DeWolf Smyth, Thomas E. Murray and Eugene M. Zuckert) warned against a trend toward centralization of authority in Chairman Lewis Strauss. Physicist Smyth declared that on some matters Strauss had closed his fellow commissioners out. Industrialist Murray urged equal "authority, responsibility and access to information" for all five members of the commission...
Beat the Devil. John Huston and Truman Capote tell a completely wacky shaggy-dog story;with Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre (TIME, March...
Beat the Devil. John Huston and Truman Capote tell a completely wacky shaggy-dog story; with Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones (TIME, March...