Word: trumans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truman took no notice of his resignation then. He liked Dr. Nourse personally, even if he disregarded his advice. Twice again Nourse tried to get action on his resignation and received no answer from the White House. Then last week Nourse made his speech...
...after, a letter came to Dr. Nourse from the White House. Wrote Harry Truman: "I have been increasingly aware of your desire to retire ... I must assent to your request to be relieved of your duties...
When his good and wealthy friend, Willys-Overland Executive Ward Canaday, asked him to attend a businessman's dinner party at the Statler Hotel last week, Harry Truman obligingly agreed. He was under the impression that no more than 15 or 20 men would attend, and that he would not be obliged to speak. At dinnertime, he got into his dinner jacket, slipped quietly over to the hotel for a few hours of comfortable relaxation...
...session was the longest in peacetime since 1922, and it had been a stormy voyage. Harry Truman's Fair Deal often seemed about to founder with all its cargo. But the crew, checking over what was left after many an item had been jettisoned, found it amounted to a fair-sized package...
...fact, the 81st Congress spent more money than any other Congress in peacetime history. It whittled no significant amount off Harry Truman's budget at any point, but it added a few hundred millions here & there. It gave raises to just about everybody-the President, the Cabinet, high Administration officials, postal and civil-service employees. Its total outlay in cash, contract authority, tax refunds and debt service amounted to a whopping $51 billion...