Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Federal Spending: Having reduced the last Truman budget by $6.5 billion, the Eisenhower Administration will cut another $6 billion, go to Congress with an overall spending program of about $67 billion for fiscal 1955 (beginning next July). Income is expected to be $64 billion, leaving a bookkeeping deficit of $3 billion. The deficit will be caused by funds committed in previous years to be paid out next year...
...Charles Bohlen as ambassador to Russia, engaging in a transatlantic cat fight with Britain's Clement Attlee. But with the adjournment of Congress, McCarthy had to scramble to keep his name in the big black type. He was beginning to sag as a topic of conversation when Harry Truman came to his aid by injecting Joe into the Harry Dexter White case-in which McCarthy had had no part. Last week, with public hearings regarding Communism in the Army Signal Corps radar laboratories at Fort Monmouth, N.J., McCarthy was bouncing again...
...Eisenhower Administration did not have time for a basic revision of the Truman defense budget. It made a few billion in cuts, mostly in the Air Force. These did not conform to any new general political-economic-military plan. Rather they were a result of finding specific soft spots in the Truman budget. Some of these cuts, for instance, were based on the assertion of Secretary Wilson that there was no use budgeting for planes that would not be produced in the budget period...
...paper celebrated its 75th anniversary in typical P-D style by looking far beyond the boundaries of Missouri. Instead of citywide fanfare, dinners and speechmaking, it put out a fat anniversary supplement, The Second American Revolution, with 33 articles on the American scene by everybody from former President Harry Truman, Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. and Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter to Poet W. H. Auden, Playwright Robert Sherwood and Cartoonist Al Capp. Included was a message from President Eisenhower, congratulating the P-D for its "most striking . . . resolve 'never to be satisfied with merely printing the news...
...candidate). P-D men have won prizes for everything from forcing a corrupt federal judge to resign and the exposure of the Teapot Dome scandals by the late Paul Y. Anderson to a series on the Depression '30s by the late Charles G. Ross, who became President Truman's press secretary after leaving the PD. The paper itself has won five "meritorious public service" Pulitzers: for exposing wholesale padding of vote registration lists in St. Louis elections (1937), its campaign to rid the city of smoke (1941), an investigation of the Centralia mine disaster (1948), rooting out newspapermen...