Word: trumanism
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What later became known as the Marshall Plan had actually been born closer to the Kremlin than to Memorial Church. Shortly after accepting President Truman's call to return from China (where he had been ambassador) and become Secretary of State, Marshall led the American delegation to the 'Moscow Foreign Ministers' Conference in April 1947. After a fruitless meeting with Stalin and Molotov in private, Marshall was convinced that the Soviet Union was stalling in European recovery action, that Europe needed help fast, and that only the West could and would provide that help. Piecemeal aid to Greece and Turkey...
Mashall in Late April and early May, combined his ideas with recommendations from the State Department and the White House. As the proposal for American aid to a unified Europe developed, it was generally referred to as the "Marshall Plan" in staff meetings. The President fostered this term, Truman says in his memories, "because I wanted General Marshall to get full credit for his brilliant contribution to the measure which he helped formulate...
Died. Francis Higbee Case, 65, wispy, upright Republican U.S. Senator from South Dakota since 1951 (after 14 years in the House), known for his 1946 House labor bill demanding tighter controls on union bargaining, which though vetoed by President Truman, was the precursor of the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act; of a heart attack; in Bethesda, Md. A conscientious lawmaker whose major interests were water conservation and development of the Missouri River basin. Case rocked the Senate by rising during a 1956 debate on a natural gas bill to make a speech implying that gas producers had attempted...
...your June 15 People section, Harry S Truman is admonishing newsmen not to put a period after the S in his name because it is a middle name, not an initial. I enclose a copy of Mr. Truman's letterhead, complete with period after...
...better than the current world mark, he said, and nominated one candidate for the feat: 14-year-old Glenn Jr. Said Glenn Sr.: "He can out run most of the high school kids in his home country right now." Ambling along East Side Manhattan, Visitor Harry S Truman allowed to re porters as how they are in error when they write a period after his middle initial...