Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Truman rode over to St. Louis from Independence this week to honor one of his favorite clergymen : Rabbi Samuel Thurman, 71, for 40 years in charge of St. Louis' United Hebrew Congregation. Rabbi Thurman, like Truman a 33rd degree Mason, had worked with him for many years in state Masonic activities; in 1949 he offered a prayer at Truman's inauguration, the second rabbi in history to participate in a presidential inaugural.- Others at the Jefferson Hotel's banquet table were the Very Rev. Paul C. Reinert, S.J., president of Roman Catholic St. Louis University...
...Kansas City reunion with his old World War I buddies of Battery D, 129th Field Artillery, Harry S. Truman, in his best give-'em-hell style, frankly took a bow for warding off World War III. "I've been charged with murder and about everything in the book because it was necessary to stop aggression in Korea," declared he. "Still, if I had carried out the recommendations of many, there would have been the most terrible slaughter in the history of the world. I'm taking credit for preventing...
Another reason for boosting stockpiles is that the Administration is being forced to buy up more stocks of copper, lead, zinc, tin, magnesium, tungsten and other metals than it had planned. While the fighting was on in Korea, the Truman Administration encouraged expansion of domestic mineral and metal products beyond normal needs by guaranteeing a market for much of the extra output. The guarantees served their purpose. But when demand slacked off and prices fell, the Administration had to buy up the surplus. It either had to raise stockpile limits or dump excess metals on a shaky market...
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...
...When former President Truman was here in Boston, he said that Furcolo doesn't know what he's talking about," Schlesinger said. "I stand with Truman on that...