Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spread his interests from foreign affairs and defense down to local politics. He was a consultant to the U.S. delegation at the early U.N. meetings in San Francisco, head of the Marshall Plan mission to Britain in 1948-49, and Secretary of the Air Force under Harry Truman (1950-53); at the time of the big uproar over whether or not the U.S. ought to go on with the development of the H-bomb, Finletter was in the front rank of the go-aheaders. More recently, Stevensonite Finletter joined liberal Democrats in New York City in a still-broiling fight...
...steel strike of 1959-60, when Vice President Nixon pressured behind the scenes for a settlement.) To interfere in lesser cases, Ike believed, can weaken collective bargaining by tempting either side to stall in hope of getting a better deal through Government intervention-as during the Truman era, when labor made many breakthroughs at the cost of higher prices...
...other attendants; Kennedy, fleeing from this female world, decided to make his temporary headquarters at the nearby home of a friend, Artist William Walton, an erstwhile journalist. In the afternoon, he drove to a Governors' reception at the Sheraton-Park, paid his respects all around, picked up Harry Truman and drove back home again. By now the traffic was tied in knots, and Kennedy canceled out on two receptions...
...FARM PROBLEM. When Harry Truman left office, the cost of price supports and food storage was averaging $1.5 billion a year; when Dwight Eisenhower retired to private life, the cost had soared to a disastrous $9 billion annually. Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson's principle of a free market for agriculture was right, but he was never able to translate it into a workable farm program. Democratic Congresses, unwilling to give Benson what he wanted and unable to produce something better of their own, share the blame that Ike was more than willing to put on them...
Died. Archibald M. Main, 90, dean of U.S. naval architects who designed oceangoing yachts ranging from J.P. Morgan's Corsair to Harry Truman's Williamsburg, and whose Bath (Me.) Iron Works turned out nearly 25% of the U.S. Navy's World War II destroyers; in Bath...