Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Insurance Executive Hendon Chubb ('95) to encourage student interest in public affairs. Each year four or five public dignitaries take residence for five days, share in the life of Yale and Timothy Dwight College, make a speech and answer a lot of questions. Past Chubb Fellows include Harry Truman, Clement Attlee, Dean Acheson, Herbert Brownell. Adlai Stevenson, Chester Bowles and Barry Goldwater. Against such a cast of characters, Unruh could only say on arrival: "I guess I'm the chubbiest Chubb Fellow you've had." As it turned out, he was also one of the most charming...
...Bell got an M.A. in economics at Harvard in 1941,tutored there for a year, then went to Washington as a Budget Bureau analyst. After wartime service as a Marine intelligence officer, he returned to the Budget Bureau, moved on to become a White House assistant and one of Truman's top speechwriters. Departing from Washington in the Democratic exodus of early 1953, Bell went back to Harvard. In 1954-57, between stints of teaching economics, he served in Pakistan as head of a team that Harvard, with Ford Foundation money, sent out to advise the Pakistanis...
When President-elect Kennedy began looking for a Budget Director in late 1960, Lawyer Clark Clifford, who had been Harry Truman's No. 1 White House aide, told Kennedy that he knew of a man superlatively qualified for the job. Clifford reeled off a long list of qualifications and virtues. "And who is this paragon?'' asked Kennedy. Bell, of course...
...Commuted the sentences of six federal prisoners and issued full pardons to five others-including Matthew J. Connelly, 55, former appointments secretary to President Truman. Connelly was convicted of tax-fraud conspiracy, paroled in 1960 after serving six months, and is now a public relations man in New York...
...most valuable and complete collections of U.S. coins in existence was stolen from the Truman Library in Independence, Mo., where it was being exhibited by its owner, H.S.T.'s onetime Secretary of the Treasury, John W. Snyder. Flying home from Manhattan to preside over the investigation, Truman had his own theory about who stole the $50,000 collection. "Professional thieves have been hired by some coin collector to come and get this collection," he fumed...