Word: trumans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That night at the gala dinner, the politicos had their happy fill of virtue, curried shrimp and good cheer. Harry Truman kidded Vice President Alben Barkley about his St. Louis girl friend, and McGrath introduced the Veep, to great applause, as "the squire of Paducah and the new spirit of St. Louis." Barkley said imperturbably that "there has always been an inseparable connection between Kentucky and Missouri and it looks like it's going to continue-I hope...
Loudest & Longest. Harry Truman was in high good spirits at the way things had gone. Said he: "The Democratic Party is a national party, and not a sectional party any more. The tail no longer wags the dog." He boasted that the Democrats had won the election "without New York, without the industrial East and without the Solid South. And I am prouder of that than anything that ever happened to me." He added: "That doesn't mean that we are not inviting the industrial East and the Solid South and all the rest of the country to join...
Looking at Bill Boyle, Truman declared: "I am as happy as I can be, of course, that my lifetime friend-I have known him ever since he was a kid; I knew his mother before him and she was one of the best Democrats that Missouri ever produced-is the national chairman of the Democratic Party." Bill Boyle beamed...
...Shrewd, hard-bitten Bill Boyle believes in machine politics and the everlasting value of the faithful ward-heeler. He was a precinct captain himself before he could vote, rose through the ranks of the Boss Pendergast machine to acting director of police (TIME, Feb. 21). In 1941, Senator Harry Truman appointed him to the counsel staff of his war investigating committee, later made him his personal secretary. Last year Boyle plotted Truman's whistle-stop campaign, insisted on going after what proved to be the decisive farm and labor vote. An Irish-Catholic politician on the Jim Farley pattern...
...Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexei. "To talk of peace in the Soviet Union," said the Dean sanctimoniously, "is like bringing one's samovar to Tula."* Italy's table-thumping left-wing Socialist Leader Pietro Nenni furiously denounced the Atlantic pact as an instrument of war, shouted that President Truman was "a pocket-sized Napoleon . . ." The U.S. was represented by party-lining Negro educator Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, Germany by America's erstwhile No. 1 Communist Gerhart Eisler. When one of the delegates blurted out "Long live Stalin!", foreign guests and their Soviet friends applauded loud and long...