Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tidbits on how the Who's Whoers see, or saw, themselves. Some of Biographile Newman's findings in his initial browsing among more than 1,000,000 forms: Dwight Eisenhower is "about the only man" who keeps on shortening rather than lengthening his write-up. Harry S. Truman keeps insisting that the S is a full middle name, thus should not have a period after it. † For Who's Who's 1920-21 edition, Movie Vamp Theda Bara proudly pointed out that her papa had ceased to be a Goodman, was now legally Bernard Bara...
...Truman formally accepted the honorary middle name of Swinomish, a moniker awarded him by the chief of Washington State's Swinomish Indians. himself as "electrician." Assistant Secretary of the Navy (1913-20) Franklin D. Roosevelt crossed out his "Episcopalian" church affiliation, did not restore it until the 1924-25 edition. Just before 1940's Republican Convention, Democrat Wendell Willkie prophetically retrieved his form, altered his political affiliation to "Republican...
...cited Roosevelt's attempted "packing" of the Supreme Court in 1938 and president Truman's seizure of the steel plants in 1952 as instances of presidential infringement on the powers of the legislature and judiciary...
Galloping about Manhattan on an early-morning constitutional, Visitor Harry S. Truman, 72, told trailing newshounds why he hopes daughter Margaret, expecting a child in July, will name no boys after him: "It would be a handicap all his life. I have a nephew named after me-a sergeant in World War II*-and this name almost deviled him to death. The worst thing in the world is to have a President in the family...
...Harry Arnold Truman, son of the ex-President's brother Vivian, is now a Kansas dairy farmer...