Word: trumans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Government was committed to a lordly policy of living beyond its means. Harry Truman had already given the policy his approval. In January he had deplored deficit spending, but by July he had decided that deficit spending would be all right. In fact, said he, it was necessary for "continued economic expansion." "Last week the Senate voted in effect to underwrite Harry Truman's economics...
...From the Truman Democrats' side, the argument was that hardly any of the budget items really could be touched. The biggest outlay, a total of $32 billion, Harry Truman said, was for wars, past and future. The U.S., already in the red a quarter of a trillion dollars, would plunge anywhere from $3 billion to $8 billion deeper in the red by the end of this fiscal year...
...whine of Stuka dive bombers came to an end last week with a few words in Washington. It was just ten years after the invasion of Poland, four years after the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay, and an appropriate occasion for summing up-the kind that President Harry Truman rarely lets slip by unnoticed...
...course he had been rather disappointed that a war of nerves had persisted for the last three or four years, Harry Truman told his press conference. But he was hopeful that it would end in surrender, just like the shooting...
...cheery on the subject of his bumbling military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan, who stood dully behind him at the press conference. "Mr. President, do you contemplate any change in your military aide?" he was asked. I do not, said Harry Truman. When another reporter tried to get in a further question, the President said sharply that the committee hearing was held down at the Capitol: we will not continue it up here. And that...