Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mamie at the White House. At his first full stop, in Defiance. Ohio, he laid the cornerstone of the Anthony Wayne Library (see EDUCATION), then switched to his plane, the Columbine, for the flight to Kansas City. There, in the Muehlebach Hotel penthouse that was built especially for Harry Truman, Ike welcomed the visiting governors at a private dinner party. Afterward, he addressed a meeting of the Future Farmers of America in the Municipal Auditorium. His speech, billed as a major enunciation of farm policy, was vague and disappointing, but the Future Farmers were obviously delighted with Ike and gave...
...thought he could do something about farm prices, too, but he hasn't yet, and times are getting tougher .. . Two weeks ago I shipped two cows . . . One cow brought me $90 and the other $120.80 . . . That's $210 for two cows. Why, under Truman, you got that much...
...these were U.S. Ambassador Henry F. Grady and his successor, John E. Peurifoy. the men most responsible for seeing that the U.S. got full value for the billions it gave Greece under the Truman Doctrine. A third was the present Premier. Field Marshal Alexander Papagos, a stern and polished old warrior who had often scolded Paul in his salad days, who had twice risked his career defending Gliicksburg Kings and twice led the Greek army to victory-against the Fascists and against the Communists...
There is another change, corollary of the first: President Truman had open to him a course of action not open to Eisenhower. If the international situation degenerated too far, Truman could have threatened the Soviet Union with atomic war, forcing a showdown that might have included atomic disarmament and/or control. Eisenhower cannot do this because a U.S. threat of atomic attack can now be met by a Soviet atomic counterthreat...
...treasurer of the United Mine Workers. Warren Harding appointed James J. ("Puddler Jim") Davis, who had been president of an Iron, Steel & Tin Workers local. Herbert Hoover named William N. Doak, who had been vice president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Franklin Roosevelt appointed Frances Perkins, and Harry Truman chose Lewis Schwelenbach and Maurice Tobin...