Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...afternoons doing the essential staff work that the presidency requires, consistently shows his grasp of key principles and detail at Cabinet and top-level strategy meetings. Moreover, by delegating details, the President heads a well-oiled, relatively trouble-free Administration where the ripe feuds and conflicting policies of Truman-Roosevelt days are unheard of. White House staffers acknowledge that Ike has recently taken to his golf game with unprecedented passion. But staffers, caught under a snow of presidential memos, queries, conferences, phone calls and state visitors, quietly hope that Ike will find more time for golf, less for work...
...three more possibilities: 1) Fred A. Seaton, Nebraska newspaper publisher, onetime Assistant Secretary of Defense (under Wilson), interim Senator, later White House staffer and now Secretary of the Interior; 2) Navy-minded Wilfred J. McNeil (a rear admiral in the Reserve), comptroller of the Defense Department in both the Truman and Eisenhower Administrations, who says modestly that he thinks that a big industrialist' should get the job; 3) air-and missile-minded Donald A. Quarles, onetime Bell Laboratories executive, later Secretary of the Air Force, now Deputy Secretary of Defense, a scientist and methodical thinker who was considered...
...prosecuting attorney, judge of Roanoke's Hustings Court* (twelve years) and Congressman, he quit Washington in 1948 to be the Byrd candidate for attorney general, with the implied promise of a turn at governor. But as attorney general he lost his place in line when he endorsed Harry Truman's nomination of an anti-Byrd Virginia Democrat to the Federal Trade Commission. (Byrd beat the nomination in the Senate.) As a result, Byrd-minded Governor Thomas B. Stanley and other Byrd oligarchs settled on State Senator Garland Gray as this year's organization candidate for governor. Almond...
...Frankel of Interlaken, N.J. was kept home from school last fall with a kidney infection, he took to watching television quiz shows. One day he announced: "Presidents are my category." He began reading up on the men of the White House, with all the enthusiasm of a young Harry Truman...
...game. Lean and agile (5 ft. 10¾ in., 138 lbs.), she sprinted about the court on tireless legs, belted her serves with unladylike gusto. For one giddy moment, all England hoped that a strapping (5 ft. 11 in., 155 lbs.) English schoolgirl of 16 named Christine Truman could stop Althea in the semifinals. Christine seemed to some to be the best British prospect in 20 years, but Althea was not impressed. "I'll gobble her up," she said coolly, and then did just that...