Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this spring, but have failed to align themselves with the progressive black community leaders in the inner city. Instead they are associated with the old Negro bosses who are on the way out. In Kansas City McCarthyites dumped the last remnants of the Pendergast machine with whom Harry S. Truman got his start a half-century ago. But the McCarthyites have failed to unite with the Kennedy forces and the black community which means a liberal party takes over is impossible for the present...
...actually be choosing seven Republicans, among them Dean S. Evans Sr., 47, a Salina grain and cattle dealer and regular party contributor. Kansans who prefer Hubert Humphrey will actually vote for seven Democrats, including Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark Gray, 68, a Topeka bank president and U.S. Treasurer under Harry Truman...
...cares and responsibilities of the office." It is doubtful if a loser in one of today's superheated campaigns would be so graceful-or indeed whether a minority President like Adams or Hayes could deal with Congress or the world on so minuscule a mandate. Both Harry Truman in 1948 (with 49.6% of the popular vote) and John Kennedy in 1960 (49.5%) were hampered in their dealings with Congress by their minority status...
...study of the Galapagos Islands narrated by Britain's Prince Philip, a Royal Shakespeare Company production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and another colloquy with Waterfront Philosopher Eric Hoffer. ABC will screen about 45 hours of the sum mer Olympics from Mexico, as well as a Truman Capote report on capital punishment and two more Capote teleplays. In news, CBS and NBC will pioneer prime-time shows with a magazine format. CBS's 60 Minutes, to be seen on alternate Tuesdays, will widen the TV news spectrum to include the arts. Among the "guest columnists": Norman...
...anything, these samples prove that today's politicians are much too polite, not to say unimaginative, in their terminology. Satire's best entry is, alas, hardly ever heard these days. It is snollygoster, a word that Harry Truman revived briefly in 1952. According to Truman, a snollygoster was a son of a bitch - in other words, a politician. It is probably related to snallygaster, which is derived from the German schnelle Geister, or "quick spirits." In Maryland, the snallygaster is a mythical bird of prey that feeds on unwary poultry and children. In 1895, a Georgia editor described...