Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lolita's "wise master," crackpot Nationalist Chief Albizu Campos, called the attack on Congress "an act of sublime heroism." The Harvard-educated Albizu, who inspired the 1950 plots against Harry Truman and Munoz, had been released from prison last September because of his increasing mental deterioration. (His followers do not seem to notice that he is mad.) When police set out to arrest him at his apartment in downtown San Juan last week, they were greeted by a blast of bullets and homemade Molotov cocktails that splattered on the cobblestone street. The police drew back, began a two-hour...
...John F. Kane, 39, a Truman Administration holdover, resigned as special assistant (for public relations) to Army Secretary Robert Stevens. Announced reason: Kane did not like the Republican Administration's handling of the McCarthy-Army row. Wrote he to Stevens: "If those who are infinitely more skilled in politics and publicity could have your courage, there would be a quick end to this fight...
...wild charges against Diplomat Charles Bohlen, McCarthy diverted attention by claiming credit for taking Greek ships out of trade with China. In that round, McCarthy knocked down an Eisenhower lieutenant, Harold Stassen. By late 1953, McCarthy was adrift in a lackluster investigation at Fort Monmouth, N.J., but Harry Truman put him back in the headlines by labeling the exposure of the Harry Dexter White case as "McCarthyism." Joe promptly proclaimed that Joe was the issue in the 1954 elections...
...except in special cases. (Stalin's biography was sent by the Russian embassy in Washington.) Dwight Eisenhower, when he was commander at NATO, noticed that his listing had grown longer and longer as he acquired new honors, pared it down to 24 lines. Former President Harry S. Truman (25 lines) argued that his middle initial should be followed by a period, even though the initial stood for nothing, but in the current issue the period was dropped anyway. Longest entry in the book: International Business Machine Board Chairman Thomas Watson (181 lines...
Beat the Devil (Santana; United Artists), if it is any one thing at all, is as elaborate a shaggy-dog story as has ever been told. It was made up by Author Truman (Other Voices, Other Rooms) Capote and Director John (The African Queen) Huston during the spring season last year at Ravello, on the Gulf of Sorrento, apparently by stirring Strega fumes slowly into a novel by James Helvick. Because Huston happened to have $1,000,000 and several talented actors at his disposal, everybody fell to and turned the bibble-babble into a movie...