Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cohn stayed in the Justice Department through the Truman Administration. Attorney General Herbert Brownell ignored his gambits for a better job there, so he turned to his many admirers on Capitol Hill. On January 14, 1953, Roy Cohn resigned from Justice to become chief counsel to McCarthy's subcommittee, at $11,700 a year...
...Boston Red Sox lost their fifth straight yesterday, bowing 2 to 1 to the Pittsburgh Pirates before only 582 fans at frigid, wind-swept Jaycee Field. Truman Clevenger, 21-year-old rookie, was the losing pitcher...
...Ramon Betances and Jose de Diego were 19th century Puerto Rican patriots who demanded that Spain free their country. *One, Doris Torresola, is the sister of Terrorist Griselio Torresola, who was shot and killed behind a hedge near Blair House during the attempt to assassinate President Truman...
...January 1950, Moscow and Peking recognized Ho Chi Minh's "Democratic Republic." In February 1950, the U.S. recognized Bao Dai's state, and 37 of its allies followed suit. In June 1950, the U.S. sent its first shipment of arms. When the Communists struck in Korea. President Truman sent military advisers to Saigon. The world issue was joined...
...Konrad Adenauer, Dean Achesoh) to Z (Darryl Zanuck, Vera Zorina. Babe Didrikson Zaharias). The names are his cast of characters in anecdotes which are interrupted only by items of news and occasionally "the kind of gossip that doesn't hurt anyone." A typical Lyons anecdote: "I owed the Trumans a dinner, for they had been our hosts on that memorable last night in the White House . . . During the cab ride [to a restaurant], I suggested a private screening of ... Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. He shook his head, glanced at Mrs. Truman's new hairdo, and said: 'Real gentlemen...