Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Truman budget $40.7 billion Wilson budget 35.7 " Appropriations Committee budget 34.4 The committee's proposed allocation of funds : Army $12.9 billion Navy 9.3 " Air Force 11 " Taber's committee applauded as "sound and reasonable" Wilson's plan to reduce the Air Force buildup goal from 143 to 120 wings. But where Wilson had concentrated primarily on cutting the Air Force, Taber's men divided their attentions among all three services. They proposed to take another $689 million away from the Army, $398 million from the Navy and Marine Corps and $240 million from the Air Force...
...Fired Josiah Marvel Jr. and Raymond S. McKeough, Truman-appointed members of the International Claims Commission, which handles claims of U.S. investors whose property has been nationalized by foreign governments. Marvel and McKeough, who had refused to resign their $15,000-a-year jobs after the election, had settled only 132 claims in more than three years, still had 1,000 pending...
...door of the U.S. Senate chamber opened one afternoon last week, and a guest was ushered in. Harry S. Truman, tanned and eupeptic, not quite as trim and natty as he used to be (he no longer has a personal valet), beamed as Senators and visitors broke into applause...
Hard Pickup. Without hesitating, the ex-President strode to the desk of his old political foe, Robert A. Taft, the ailing majority leader. The two shook hands, smiled and chatted. Then Truman was ushered to the rear-row seat he occupied for ten years as a Senator. He made a little speech, remarked that he always liked the seat, because it was so close to the door and he could duck out when the going got hot. After his speech, Truman shook hands all around and moved ahead on his visitors' schedule. When a Washington Star cartoon showed...
...June 29, 1950, the President of the U.S. told the American people that a "bunch of bandits" had crossed the 38th parallel in Korea. "Under the circumstances," said Harry Truman, "I have ordered U.S. air and sea forces to give the Korean government troops cover and support...