Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Appointed by Harry Truman as chief of the Marshall Plan special mission to Italy in 1948, with the rank of minister, he too started off by stepping on Italian toes with some blunt talk about the government's land-reform plans. Before he left in 1950, Italy had come to respect him as much as he respected Italy...
...Delhi: John Sherman Cooper's post, vacant since Cooper resigned to run for the Senate, will be taken by Ellsworth Bunker, retiring American National Red Cross president* and a topnotch ambassador to Italy and Argentina under Harry Truman...
...lone congressional vote against a U.S. declaration of war after Pearl Harbor), served five terms and carved out an influential place for himself on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. In 1944 Franklin Roosevelt appointed him presidential representative to study political and economic conditions in China. In 1951 Harry Truman made him a U.S. delegate to the United Nations General Assembly...
...various public works plans reminiscent of Harold Ickes' PWA days. Congress will vote a very modest tax relief for low-income groups only. In midwinter President Eisenhower will announce that he will not run again. On the Democratic side, Adlai Stevenson will get the nomination; but Harry Truman, once bitter against Senator Kefauver, this time will throw his weight to Kefauver for Vice President...
...fighting man in Korea, says Marshall, faced some formidable, unsung handicaps, thanks to the enemy's growing battle ability and the limitations imposed by the Truman Administration. The stalemate "was a bonanza for Communist China. On that training ground, her armies became as skilled as any in the world in the techniques of hitting, evading and surviving...