Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Truman Douglas, head of the Board of Home Missions of the Congregational Church, appeared last night to be high on a list of three men submitted to President Pusey for consideration as new Dean of the Divinity School...
...this lack of control has resulted in the Attorney-General of the United States impugning the loyalty of an ex-President of the country, and thereby undermining the presumption of good faith upon which the two-party system rests. Neither Brownell's nor Eisenhower's belated recognition of Truman's loyalty can obscure these facts: Brownell's charge was a deliberate smear, leveled by the top political strategist of the Administration in order to win a Congressional election. Can such a man be trusted to put justice above politics in administering the office of Attorney-General...
Congressman Velde, by subpoening Truman without consulting his own committee, even bypasses the check which the Un-American Activities Committee had placed on his subpoena power after his brush with the clergy last spring. If he sees nothing graver in Velde's actions than embarrassment to his own party, Eisenhower should use his Congressional influence to get Velde replaced as Chairman of this committee...
McCloskey called the subpoenas of Truman, Supreme Court Justice Clark, and Governor Byrnes "incredibly bad taste." There's no doubt that Truman would have come if merely asked to appear instead of being subpoenaed, he added. "It looks as if Velde sent the subpoenaed only to get in his bid for head-lines ahead of McCarthy...
...Harry Truman gave our wonderful Douglas McArthur a dirty deal in favor of the Commies. What a happy band of pilgrims when you and he march onward back to Moscow. Goodbye now. Good marching across the steppes. Harry is a great walker...