Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nuts & Bolts Approach. Bliss's success can be measured by the contrast between November 1948 and November 1962. In 1948 Harry Truman carried Ohio, and the G.O.P. lost seven of the eight statewide offices that were at stake. With the party demoralized by defeat and torn by dissension, G.O.P. leaders asked Bliss, longtime chairman in Summit County (Akron), to take over as state chairman. Bliss was far from eager for the job: he had founded his own insurance agency only a few years before, and he wanted to retire from politics. He agreed to serve as chairman only after...
...Conflict. One was James Webb, head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. A former Director of the Budget under Harry Truman, Webb, 56, has a cautious eye where money is concerned. He claims to be satisfied with the progress of the $20 billion moon-flight program. Says Webb: "We have not slipped our target dates...
...term Congressman who had survived a G.O.P. gerrymander a decade ago, found his twelve new rural Illinois counties too much ground to cover, lost to freshman Republican Paul Findley. West Virginians seemed to resent all the outside help received by Bailey, an eight-termer, including stumping by Kennedy and Truman. They rallied behind underdog Arch Moore Jr., 39, to give him a 32,000-vote victory despite a 51,000 Democratic registration edge. Santangelo's East Harlem district was knocked out by the legislature, and he never had much chance of dislodging five-term Republican Paul A. Fino...
...April 1945. Eleanor Roosevelt followed her husband's casket from a white cottage at Georgia's Warm Springs, down Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue, into the flower-scented East Room of the White House. "Is there anything I can do for you?" asked the new President, Harry Truman. Replied Mrs. Roosevelt, "No, but is there anything we can do for you?" When she returned home to Manhattan the following week, she dismissed waiting reporters with four words: "The story is over...
Died. George Herbert Moore, 84, retired U.S. District Judge in St. Louis, a portly senior jurist whose bulldog determination in the 1950s forced grand jury inquiries into tax fixing within the Bureau of Internal Revenue that ended, despite all attempts at whitewash, in indictments including such Truman Administration officials as T. Lamar Caudle and ex-Collector of Internal Revenue James P. Finnegan; in St. Louis...