Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shortly after Roosevelt's death. Miss Perkins' resignation was accepted by President Truman, but she remained in Government for another seven years as a civil-service commissioner. The day Dwight Eisenhower was inaugurated she resigned for good, the "last leaf," she said cheerfully, on the New Deal tree. Last week, her accomplishments part of the fabric of American social reform. Frances Perkins died in Manhattan at 83, following a stroke...
...Administration; none of us should try to divide the support that citizens owe to their head of state in critical international situations." The absurdity of Ike's idea was pointed out by New York Daily News Columnist Ted Lewis: "Certainly Ike in 1952, when he tore into Truman's conduct of the 'police action' in Korea, was not following the 'write a confidential letter' advice he is now giving...
...This will be a historical day. At 9:00 o'clock this morning, I must make a broadcast to the country announcing the German surrender. Isn't that some birthday present?" So wrote Harry S. Truman to his mother on his 61st birthday just 20 years ago. It was his 26th day as President of the United States. Celebrating the anniversary of that day this year at his annual birthday luncheon in Kansas City, Mo., Harry smilingly accepted a million-dollar pledge for the Truman Library Institute, where scholars study the history he made. But what really turned...
...other industry has had such strained relations with Washington as the steel industry. From the violent strikebreaking of the '30s to Harry Truman's short-lived take-over of the entire industry, from Estes Kefauver's investigations of pricing practices to John Kennedy's fiery outburst against the industry's leaders, steel and the Government have often been at odds. Both sides have mellowed a good deal of late, but they are far from becoming kissin' cousins. Last week the Government issued a report that raised the hackles of the industry and is sure...
...Charles S. Murphy, 55, Under Secretary of Agriculture, will replace Boyd as CAB chairman, though he has virtually no background in the field. A lawyer from North Carolina, Murphy has served in Government for 28 years in a wide range of jobs, notably as President Truman's special counsel from 1950 to 1953. During the Senate investigation of the financial shenanigans of Convicted Swindler Billie Sol Estes, Democrat Murphy, then Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman's right-hand man, was roundly criticized by Republicans for showing favoritism to Estes, but he emerged from the scandal unscathed after Freeman vouched...