Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Satisfying Slap. Mike Mansfield had scored a major triumph. His amendment 1) gave the Democrats something solid to show for all the nagging, 2) enabled them to get in a hard, satisfying slap at Ike and Dulles while assuming a statesmanlike stance and, incidentally, 3) justified Harry Truman's 1950 decision to send U.S. forces into Korea without congressional authorization...
...Diplomacy. While the U.S. was generally grasping the logic of the New Look, Admiral Radford was often out in front urging a firm military-diplomatic line against Communism. In 1953 Radford advised Eisenhower to revise Harry Truman's two-way U.S. blockade of the Formosa Strait. His points: Why guarantee the Chinese Reds against attack from the Chinese Nationalists on Formosa? Eisenhower weighed the risks, took the decision, forced Red China to deploy hundreds of thousands of defense troops along the South China coast. Two years later Radford and Dulles not only endorsed Ike's public promise-backed...
...supplied by the administration to rural electric cooperatives. Seaton sliced the coops' rate increase to 27½%, suggested other revenue by increasing rates on power supplied to private power companies. He also demanded that a 30-year contract between Southwestern Power and the Reynolds Metals Co., fashioned by Truman Interior Secretary Oscar Chapman, be renegotiated to allow higher rates...
Entraining in Kansas City for three weeks of sunshine on a Florida key, Harry S. Truman, 72, and wife Bess, 71, bore the marks of Missouri mishaps. Bess's broken left ankle was still in a cast after a recent household tumble (TIME, Jan. 14); Harry's scalp was bandaged over a six-stitch wound he got when he slipped on an icy sidewalk outside his home during a dawn workout...
...Onetime Harvard President James Conant, 63, resigned as Ambassador to the German Federal Republic, may be replaced, if Senate Republicans approve, by David K. E. Bruce, 58, Baltimore lawyer, Harry Truman's Ambassador to France (1949-52) and onetime (1952-53) Under Secretary of State...