Word: trumanity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year the girl is Miss Sharman Douglas, daughter of the U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James; last year when the stunt was inaugurated, Miss Margaret Truman was named...
...presidential preview, Harry Truman had dropped in and sounded a happy blast on a 12th Century hunting horn. Last week, as Washington's National Gallery admitted ordinary visitors to its showing of the family treasures of Austria's Habsburgs, there were plenty of such rich and marvelous knickknacks for folks to goggle at. including jeweled goblets, an emerald cream jar, embossed parade armor, even a nine-lb. golden salt cellar wrought by Benvenuto Cellini. But the finest treasures of all in the $80,000,000 loan exhibition had been put together with only a few dollars worth...
...Page One, Howard's New York World-Telegram demanded: "Mr. President, what are you going to do? Get him out or let him rot?" At President Truman's press conference, Merriman Smith, of the Scripps-Howard-controlled United Press, put the question: What about the imprisonment of Angus Ward? Said the President: an outrage. Then the State Department sent an appeal to 30 nations in Ward's behalf. A few days later Ward was free (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In a final cartoon, Scripps-Howard assigned the credit to public opinion, the force it had done much...
...West Point superintendent now in Tokyo. Messaged General Douglas Mac-Arthur: "There is no substitute for victory." If West Point's tough, all-conquering football squad needed any further goad last week, it was supplied by pre-game gibes from the Navy cheering section. With President Harry Truman and 102,442 others watching in Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium, Annapolis banners flaunted some sore subjects...
...loyalty order now in force was promulgated by President Truman in March 1947 in Executive Order 9825. The order itself did not define the world "disloyalty" but set up certain standards by which the Attorney General could determine who was disloyal by membership is, or sympathetic association, with certain organizations which he, the Attorney General would determine are subversive. Thus, the power to decide who was eligible for government employment was placed in the hands of one man, unfettered by any unconstitutional guarantees of due process of law. Justice Jackson condemned this type of proceeding when, speaking for the Supreme...