Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...builder, who in 1921 developed on the outskirts of Columbus what is generally recognized as the nation's first shopping center, almost went broke in the Depression, recouped after World War II with the biggest chain of shopping centers in the U.S. (among the links: the 105-acre Truman Corners Town and Country south of Kansas City, the 60-acre Miracle Mile in Detroit); of a heart attack; in Columbus...
...necessity. In early 1952, U.S. intelligence officers recognized that the continuing revolution in weapon design, coupled with the Soviets' fanatic penchant for secrecy, had put the U.S. at a dangerous disadvantage. The U.S. was starved for intelligence information. The most obvious solution was high-altitude air surveillance. President Truman and Secretary of State Dean Acheson both agreed that such air reconnaissance was desirable-but they were unwilling to pursue such a project for fear of the results if a spy plane were shot down...
Forward March, and for three days visiting former President Harry S. Truman, 79, kept Manhattan newsmen panting in his wake during those famous early-morning walkie-talkies. Never breaking his military 30-in., 120-per-min. stride, H.S.T. had something to say about practically everything. On tax cuts: "I am old fashioned. I believe you should pay in more than you spend." On desegregation: Alabama Governor Wallace "won't make it." Nonetheless, the civil rights march on Washington was "silly." The next morning Truman had a question of his own for a reporter: "Would you want your daughter...
...Democratic New York state judge, precocious Roy Cohn graduated from Columbia University's Law School at 20 (a year before he was eligible to enter the state bar), investigated Communists for the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan, became a special assistant to Harry Truman's U.S. Attorney General James McGranery, and in 1953 went over to the staff of Joe McCarthy's Senate Investigating Subcommittee...
...takes the full measure of his illustrious career-World War I, his service in the Philippines, the 1932 Bonus March on Washington, which MacArthur, then Army Chief of Staff, stemmed at "the Battle of Anacostia Flats," the heroic triumphs of World War II, and his final recall by President Truman from command in Korea in 1951. "I felt that a mass of misinformation and lack of information required some further exposition of the facts," said the general...