Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue was ever settled by amilitary armistice; it is what is done after the armistice that counts. At the time of the Korean truce-signing, Illinois Senator Paul Douglas remarked wryly that if the truce "had been put through by Truman and Acheson, there would have been cries throughout the country to impeach them." Douglas was probably correct, but not in the sense that he intended. The U.S. had accepted a Korean armistice because it trusted Dwight Eisenhower to make the most of the uneasy peace to work out a firm approach to Communism in Asia-something that Truman...
There was a reason for the sudden and anxious request. The federal debt stood at more than $272 billion-less than $3 billion under the ceiling set by Congress in 1946. Having inherited obligations to pay cash on delivery for huge quantities of goods and services ordered by the Truman Administration, and facing a decline in revenues, it seemed that it would be only a matter of months, or possibly weeks. before the Eisenhower Administration would be broke...
...reverse echo of Harry Truman's famed comment: "There are too many Byrds in the Senate...
...wanted one of his paintings changed, the master snapped: "Let him mend the world; I'll mend my paintings." As if heedful of Michelangelo's sound advice, the U.S. Government has mostly steered clear of trying to mend America's painting. Two years ago Harry Truman asked the National Commission of Fine Arts (whose usual job is to advise on statues and fountains) to see what the Government might do in the way of art patronage. After taking four volumes of testimony from federal bureaucrats, museum people and "cultural attaches" from abroad, the commission reported to President...
Died. Dr. Elmer Lee Henderson, 68, Louisville surgeon, who as president of the American Medical Association (1950-51) led its successful $4,500,000 campaign against the Truman-Ewing health plan; of cancer; in Louisville...