Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thanks to Citizen H. S. Truman you can chalk up ... Joe McCarthy. LEWIS T. APPLE Clayton...
...Harry S. Truman who . . . still had the courage to stand up to his accusers. To go before the American people as he did, and explain the reasons why he did the things he was accused of, took undeniable courage, whether right or wrong. MARK A. LAZAR, D.D.S. Newark
...fight back. Had McCarthy limited his bid for power to the issue of Communists in Government. Dulles might not have felt compelled to act. But McCarthy in his nationwide radio-TV speech had also berated the Administration for sending "perfumed notes" to Allied nations, "following the style of the Truman-Acheson regime," while doing nothing about the Allies' trade with China...
...Ritter, a Truman appointee, was confirmed by the Senate after a year of wrangling, secret hearings, Republican protests and disapproval by the American Bar Association's judiciary committee. In three years on the bench, he has earned quite a reputation for individualism; he once ordered 26 postal employees on the floor below his court arrested, because their noise at work disturbed...
...brief biographies of Lillian Gish (revived with Duel in the Sun") and Charles Chaplin, "the most authentic genius of the cinema." Picasso has swelled to 77 lines; Malenkov and Beria have arrived; Korea has grown from two-thirds of a column to two-thirds of a page. Eisenhower, Truman and Churchill are all hommes d'état, but General de Gaulle has been demoted to a mere homme politique...