Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...transition from Dwight Eisenhower to John Kennedy was unflawed by the personal and political feudism of the Hoover-Roosevelt and Truman-Eisenhower changeovers. During the span between election and inauguration, members of the Eisenhower Administration, at the President's orders, cooperated fully with Kennedy and his appointees. Eisenhower and Kennedy met face to face for three hours in early December. Last week, the day before the inauguration, they conferred again, then met with Cabinet officers of the old and new Administrations in what a joint communiqué called a "full discussion of the world situation...
...electronic computer. No event could be considered a success without the appearance of at least one Kennedy-and, since there were more than enough Kennedys around, there were few failures on that account. The inaugural committee threw a huge affair at the National Gallery to welcome Bess Truman, the Cabinet wives, the Kennedy and Johnson ladies, and other women of importance; the hall became a rustling sea of mink and jewel, bouffant hairdo and beaded gown. Over at the Statler-Hilton, House Speaker Sam Rayburn hosted a party for Lyndon Johnson; at the Mayflower, Young Democrats danced with anxious glances...
...Lampoon denied having tried for years to identify its name with that of the CRIMSON. When pressed about Lampoon parodies of the CRIMSON and about a letter which the Lampoon sent to President Truman in 1946, offering him an honorary editorship of the CRIMSON, President Winter denied all responsibility. "The Advocate keeps doing things like that," he said...
...Wall Street by directing a massive advertising drive aimed at turning middle-income families into a mass mar ket for securities, boosted Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith's customers to 450,000 and its gross annual income to more than $136 million. To Wall Streeters painfully astounded by Truman's 1948 presidential victory, Republican Smith gave cool counsel: "It is not good economics to interpret personal surprise as economic catastrophe...
...Lewis Carroll based his verses in Alice in Wonderland. Demonstrating some sparkling footnotework, Macdonald has ranged the whole wide field of self-declared parody. He starts with Chaucer (only students of Mid. Eng. Lit. will get much of this one) and winds up with the latest chic spoof of Truman Capote based on a New York Times Book Review section interview ("I am about as tall as a shotgun . . . I think my eyes are rather heated") or the Beowulf of the Beatniks, Allen Ginsburg, whose Howl turns into Squeal...