Word: trumanity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Baptist Harry Truman, who is justly proud of his Bible knowledge, had a little confession to make. Reaching into his memory for a quotation from Daniel last week, he had come out with: "The laws of the Medes and Persians, they are not altered." What he should have said, he explained apologetically at his press conference next day, was "which altereth not." But however his memory had served him, no one could mistake the meaning of the President's welcoming toast to his guest, the Shahinshah of Iran, first Oriental monarch to make a state visit...
...President could hardly have found more encouraging words for an ally who, perching perilously on Russia's border, supplies oil to the West and depends on military aid from the U.S. If the warmth of Harry Truman's welcome was any indication, slim, soft-spoken young (30) Mohamed Reza Shah Pahlevi also seemed in a good way of getting the economic aid he was frankly looking for, to help finance Iran's ambitious seven-year plan for modernizing the ancient land of the Persians (TIME...
Keys to the City. From the moment the presidential Independence touched down at the National Airport, having brought the Shah from Teheran, the President spared no pains to entertain his guest. Harry Truman greeted the young Shah heartily, bundled him off to review an honor guard, and steered him through the gauntlet of White House photographers. Together they drove in an open limousine through flag-draped streets to present the Shah with a six-inch key to the nation's capital. At a formal state banquet in the Carlton Hotel that night, Harry Truman offered him the keys...
Lanky, leather-faced Aubrey Williams turned it around. He went whole hog for Harry Truman's Fair Deal, especially for his civil-rights program, hopes to make the Farmer a powerful political organ. Said he: "The Farmer is for any New Deal plan you can name." By last week Publisher Williams, 59, had about tripled Southern Farmer's circulation to 1,052,821, only a furrow's width behind the South's biggest farm publications, the Southern Agriculturist (circ. 1,103,034) and the Progressive Farmer (circ. 1,080,575),-but fields ap&rt in journalistic...
...would not raise the official price of gold (TIME, Nov. 14), speculators apparently followed the dictum attributed to Bismarck: "Never believe anything until it has been officially denied." Over the past months, the speculators went right on bidding up the price of gold stocks. Last week, President Truman pricked the speculators' golden bubble. As long as he was President, he said, the price of gold would not be raised. Next day, speculators unloaded 13,900 shares of Homestake Mining, which dropped 3½ points...