Word: trumanity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through Ohio and western Pennsylvania, the Ferdinand Magellan rolled through the stilled heart of U.S. industry, silenced by the coal and steel strikes. Mile on mile, freight cars stood empty on sidings, smokeless chimneys reared against the slaty sky. Truman slipped...
...Spirits. Next morning, as the presidential train clicked homeward, the President was up at 5 to confer with Chicago politicos-Boss Jake Arvey, ex-Mayor Ed Kelly, Senator Paul Douglas. Later, at Willard, Ohio, a T-shirted boy in the crowd shouted: "What do you think of Senator Taft?" Truman declined the bait. "I like him very much," said Harry Truman pleasantly...
...Thomas Jefferson. By banquet time, the nonpolitical, bipartisan veneer had worn away. Chortling Harry Truman told the diners: "I have to deliver an address of a bipartisan nature that will be entirely satisfactory to the Democrats of Minnesota." The diners roared...
Later, in the well-packed auditorium, Harry Truman began in his best cracker-barrel manner. The last time he had been in St. Paul (a month before election) "was quite a time," said Truman. "Didn't anybody think I'd be back here addressing you within one year from that Election Day as President of the United States. But here...
Soon President Truman was throwing bricks at his favorite targets-the 80th Congress, the "privileged few," the "vested interests." He recalled that Minnesota had been carved out of Thomas Jefferson's boldly expensive Louisiana Purchase, which he likened to his own plan of expansion: the Fair Deal. Cried Truman: "There are people who contend that these programs will cost too much, just as the reactionaries in Jefferson's day contended that $15 million was too much to pay for a million square miles of new territory. They were wrong in Jefferson's time, and they...