Word: trumans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harry Truman could not put off a decision much longer. At week's end, a U.S. official summed it up briefly: "We are within ten days of an industrial crisis...
...Francisco Charter, the U.N.'s General Assembly met in special open-air session at the site of the new U.N. building at the East River foot of Manhattan's 42nd Street, to watch the cornerstone laid for U.N.'s imposing new headquarters. As President Truman arrived at the 42nd Street site, the combined New York Police, Fire & Sanitation Department bands struck up The Sidewalks of New York, better known by its first line: "East side, West side . . ." The song was being played at the insistence of U.N. Secretary General Trygve Lie, who had decided that no national...
...against Russia and sin, in favor of prosperity and happiness. These goals have recently begun to seem somewhat inadequate to direct specific operations. The U. S., in other words, is in need of sharper definition of its foreign policy. It cannot look to Washington; Harry Truman is a public opinion President, seeking to follow, not to lead, the people. Who, then, makes public opinion? One of the most revered (even though not the most widely read) of those who try to mold opinion is Walter Lippmann. For some time he has been unhappy about U. S. foreign policy. This...
Lippmann is opposed to the Truman Doctrine and to the thinking of State Department Planner George Kennan which helped shape it. For two years, Lippmann has argued that: 1) the U.S. cannot "contain" Russia on the whole periphery of the Soviet Union; 2) that Soviet power is unlikely to "mellow" under containment; and 3) that a settlement with Russia should be sought that would result in the withdrawal from Germany of the Western armies as well as of the Red army...
...ballroom guests were not alone in celebrating John Dewey's 90th birthday. Messages had poured in from all over the world-from President Harry Truman and Prime Minister Clement Attlee, from Pandit Nehru, Historian Arnold Toynbee, Harvard's President James B. Conant and from a hundred U.S. colleges and universities. A dozen foreign nations had planned celebrations. Friends were raising $90,000 for an educational Dewey Birthday Fund. Gruffed John Dewey when a reporter asked him what he thought of it all: "I keep thinking it's a damned funny thing to celebrate...