Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...planks are less so. The traditional clear-the-rascals-out clause is particularly ill-considered; it reads "We shall reform the processes of government in all branches . . . we will clean out corruption and conflicts of interest and improve Government service." This is the sort of thing for which Harry Truman very properly reprimanded Adlai Stevenson in 1952; surely there is no longer any need either to invoke or to exorcise the Jenner-McCarthy spirit...
Foreign Affairs. Which party is best prepared to lead the U.S. to victory? In answer, Judd, who has seen emergent Communism first hand as a longtime medical missionary in China, launched a sharp campaign polemic against the records of "two American Presidents [Roosevelt and Truman] who got along famously with the Communists-as long as they gave in to them." Said he: "It wasn't the Republicans who at Teheran, against the urgent advice of Mr. Churchill, agreed to give the Russians a free hand in the Balkans, who secretly divided Poland and gave half...
...brought to an end the fighting in the Korean war, which the Truman...
...Should those bicycle ice-cream salesmen, known in America as Good Humor men and in Britain as Stop Me and Buy One vendors, be forbidden to jingle their bells as they vend? At almost the same time that the House of Commons soberly debated his 1951 agreement with President Truman regulating U.S. air bases in Britain, Lord Attlee rose to denounce "these instruments of cruelty." "They make a deafening noise," murmured Lord Simonds...
...This House Be Safe from Tigers, King (2) 2. Born Free, Adamson ( 1 ) 3. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (3) 4. I Kid You Not, Paar (4) 5. Felix Frankfurter Reminisces, Frankfurter with Phillips (6) 6. How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market, Darvas 7. Mr. Citizen, Truman (5) 8. The Night They Burned the Mountain, Dooley (7) 9. The Conscience of a Conservative, Gold water (9) 10. The Law and the Profits, Parkinson...