Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alexander (who thinks nothing of splitting a sentence between French and English). There are casually elegant buffet lunches and small dinner parties-seldom for more than 24-at which the guest list might include the Windsors, Henry Ford II and Salvador Dali, Italy's Donna Marella Agnelli and Truman Capote. Governor Nelson Rockefeller and the Maharajah of Jaipur, Noel Coward and Senator Jacob Javits...
...Kennedy the trade expansion bill was vital. It could, he said, "affect the unity of the West, the course of the cold war, and the growth of our nation for a generation or more to come." All the living ex-Presidents-Republicans Hoover and Eisenhower as well as Democrat Truman-came out for its passage. The Committee for a National Trade Policy, a bipartisan business group, strove to convince the nation of the bill's importance...
...good faith. It was Murphy who also backed Estes' reappointment to the Cotton Advisory Committee despite adverse reports from Agriculture's office of personnel. North Carolinian Murphy, 52, helped draft the second Agricultural Adjustment Act in 1938, later served as White House special counsel under Harry Truman; after spending the Eisen hower years in private law practice, Murphy joined Agriculture...
...hardly believe it. "What do you mean. Paul Hoffman and Anna Rosenberg?" said a friend. "They don't have time to get married." Recently divorced from her husband of 43 years, Anna. 59, became a Democratic power soon after she joined the New Deal in 1934, was Harry Truman's Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower-highest post ever for a woman in the Pentagon's trousered world-now bosses her own public relations agency. Widower Hoffman, 71, a lifelong Republican and a friend for 20 years, is a supersalesman who made a million before...
...Administration launched a trial balloon for its European recovery program May 8. Truman's mother was sick in Kansas City at the time, and so he authorized Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson to replace him at a meeting of plantation owners in Cleveland, Miss. Acheson omitted the particulars, but his general message was clear: the United States ought to be conscious of Europe's post-war plight and ought to offer...