Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the antitrust suits left over by the Truman Administration was one filed in 1948 against the meat industry's big four-Armour, Swift, Wilson and Cudahy. Charging them with monopolistic practices dating back to 1893, the Justice Department wanted to break the companies up into 14 separate firms. But when a Federal District judge banned any evidence before 1930, the meat was gone from the meatpacker case, and the Democrats left it in a sort of legal limbo for the Republicans...
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...
...United States would not accept such a revolutionary plan at the present time. Even one of the most ardent adherents of compulsory health insurance, ex-President Truman, has stated that it would be better to try state "group insurance" plans instead, with the national and state governments providing premiums for those unable...
...Truman's Commission on Health Needs also recommended federal assistance to states ("grants-in-aid") for medical school construction, research, and scholarships. The Commission's plan, while avoiding much of Britain's detailed paper work, would provide better medical care for the country, vesting authority in the hands of elected officials instead...
...characters. Humphrey Bogart, for the most part, plays the same role he has perfected over the years. If he was called Rick, Sam or Harry before, and Billy now, the role hasn't changed; nor should it, since it is what he does best. But authors John Huston and Truman Capote have surrounded Bogart with an entirely new stock of characters, and taken from him the chore of hitting or shooting people--he is, after all getting...