Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Physicist Edward Teller, whose studies indicated that the H-bomb was scientifically feasible, Connecticut's Democratic Senator Brien McMahon, chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, and finally AEC Commissioner Gordon Dean. On Jan. 31, 1950, President Truman ordered the H-bomb to be built...
Witty, yam-shaped Democrat Di Salle, Harry Truman's price stabilization chief during the Korean war, is now Governor of Ohio. People still call him Mike, but after his present term, he may no longer be Governor. Di Salle faces a strenuous battle this fall against Republican State Auditor James A. Rhodes. A Di Salle-v.-Rhodes contest would confront voters with a clear-cut choice between differing concepts of government. Di Salle, 54, is a welfare-stater who in 1959 pushed through the legislature a $300 million increase in state taxes. Rhodes, 53, will be running...
...Communist liberalism, in opposition to the Red-riddled popular front built around Presidential Hopeful Henry A. Wallace. But the following year the Wallace movement vanished like smoke in a windstorm, depriving A.D.A. of its original reason for being. In 1948, before the Democratic Convention, A.D.A. rooted against Harry Truman; some prominent A.D.A. members, including Chester Bowles and Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., called for a Democratic ticket headed by General Dwight Eisenhower, then a political enigma. But after getting re-elected in 1948, Truman deprived A.D.A of the pleasures of opposition by trying to outdeal the New Deal...
...parade from the windows over Lower Broadway, and from that day on, a Ticker-Tape Parade was deemed the only proper demonstration of affection for a conquering hero. Queen Marie of Rumania got it, and so did President Wilson, Gen eral Pershing, Bobby Jones, Connie Mack, Albert Einstein, Eisenhower, Truman, MacArthur. and scores and scores of others. All the while, under seven mayors, Whalen served the city without salary...
...common reservation, reflecting the social consciousness peculiar to 20th century American industry, was that although a businessman has a right to set his own prices, he should exercise "responsibility" in doing so. Said President George Killion of American President Lines, a Treasurer of the Democratic National Committee during the Truman era: "If the rise in steel prices was really needed, it should have been adequately explained to the appropriate federal agencies, with adequate preparation and groundwork. It should not have been a coldblooded action taken out of the blue. A private company's responsibilities to the public transcend...