Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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University of Louisville Harry S. Truman, former president...
...Widespread overseas travel for top U.S. officials is a recently acquired custom. In 1957, President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles met with Britain's Harold Macmillan in Bermuda while Vice President Nixon was in Africa. President Truman and Secretary of State Byrnes went to Potsdam in 1945 at a time when there was no Vice President...
...Jordan's purses and threatening his manager and a promoter. Carbo, who has served time for manslaughter and illegal matchmaking but beaten five murder raps, faces up to 85 years in prison and $50,000 in fines. Also convicted were his chief errand boy. Frank ("Blinky") Palermo; Lawyer Truman Gibson Jr., once president of the now defunct International Boxing Club; and two small-change L.A. hoods. The convictions meshed neatly with Senate subcommittee hearings on a bid by Tennessee's Estes Kefauver to create a racket-busting federal boxing commissioner to purge the sport of gangland control. Kefauver...
...live in Red China. Among them were Otho G. Bell, William A. Cowart and Lewie W. Griggs-and they had compelling reasons to stay with Communism. As a prisoner, Bell had publicly proclaimed that U.S. officers had ordered him to kill women and children, that President Harry S. Truman was a warmonger, and that he would gladly run a tank over the President's body. Cowart had boasted that he hated America and had accused the U.S. of germ warfare. Griggs toadied to his captors by calling them "comrades" and won prison favors through anti-American broadcasts and articles...
State of Disarray. In the past, U.S. Presidents, ranging from Franklin Roosevelt through Harry Truman to Dwight Eisenhower, have never fared too well in face-to-face meetings with Soviet dictators-even when the U.S. was dealing from strength. There was no doubt that Jack Kennedy, his New Frontier foreign policies currently in a state of some disarray, was taking a chance. But Kennedy felt confident that he could look Khrushchev squarely in the eye and effectively warn him that despite recent reverses, neither the President nor the U.S. could safe ly be pushed around. There were some who argued...