Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harry Truman had asked for $72.9 billion in new appropriations-$41.5 billion for the military, $7.6 billion for foreign aid, $2 billion for atomic energy, and $21.8 billion for other purposes. Dwight Eisenhower did not break down his proposed cuts, but defense (which eats up almost two-thirds of the budget) would have to bear the brunt. Bob Taft later told reporters how the slicing would be done: $5 billion off the military budget, $1.8 billion from foreign aid, $250 million out of the atomic-energy program, and $1.2 billion in the other departments...
...Army will keep the 20 combat divisions it now has and (because of an additional $1 billion appropriation for ammunition) may actually end up with more money than it expected to get under the Truman budget. Its training divisions, however, will be cut from ten to seven and its replacement training centers from...
Obviously, the Air Force program will bear the brunt of the cuts, and it is in this area that the President has yet to fill in a few blanks. The Truman Administration's plan to build the Air Force to 143 wings was not-as Eisenhower implied-a program which was to be ready for one critical year and then done with. It was a program to equip the U.S. with air weapons for the jet age, to be ready...
Chief Justice Fred Vinson, once a favorite of Harry Truman's at the poker table, is a regular at Ike's bridge table. A crackerjack player, good-humored Fred Vinson has never been known to get openly riled at a partner's misplay. Another regular is Air Secretary Harold Talbott. who has a competitive spirit to match Ike's, and plays an equally smart game. Among occasional players: Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, Under Secretary of State Bedell Smith; Banker Clifford Roberts; Newspaper Executive William E. Robinson, Bridge Master Oswald Jacoby. (Says Jacoby: "The President plays better...
Judge Youngdahl (Republican governor of Minnesota from 1947 to 1951, then member of the federal judiciary by appointment of Harry Truman) ruled that the dismissed counts were "fatally defective" because they infringed on an individual's constitutional right to free opinion and to clear accusation when standing trial. A broadside charge that Lattimore falsely denied being "a sympathizer or promoter of Communism or Communist interests" was, said the court, "so nebulous and indefinite that a jury would have to indulge in speculation in order to arrive at a verdict...