Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Address by Harry S. Truman...
...keep up with the affairs of his polyglot see (he speaks Greek, Turkish, English. French, Russian and Spanish), sleeping and eating little, making himself accessible to almost anyone who wants to see him. He maintains close contact with his old friends in the U.S., among them ex-President Harry Truman. Even his sharpest critics acknowledge that his political sense has accomplished much for Greek-Turkish relations. Says one of them: "Athenagoras is not essentially an ecclesiast or a scholar. He is a religio-politician. But I must admit that he is a man of great vision...
...Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom principles were the major philosophical stamp on my thought") and a registered Democrat in Fairfax County, Va., where he lives. He is a lifelong internationalist, a staunch supporter of the League of Nations and the U.N., has backed the Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine; but he sometimes speaks with an accent that isolationists applaud. He also strongly backs Senator McCarthy, but has condemned McCarthy's "indefensible" slander of General Marshall...
...Truman or Eisenhower has been to ours [in that he] just won't let any . . . bums call a strike. How does he handle such things, then? Well, he just doesn't give union officials the power to call strikes...
Burton, a Rapublican, was appointed to the Supreme Court Oct. 1, 1945, by expresident Havry Truman. Prior to his appointement, he had served as senator from his home state of Ohio. He received a LL.B. from the Law School in 1912, after which he practiced law in Cleveland. In 1935, he was elected mayor of Cleveland, a post he held until...