Word: trumans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time the subcommittee lowered its dredge last week, it scooped up Amateur General Harry Vaughan. Each time he was hauled, dripping and protesting, into public view, it became more obvious that he had been using his general's stars, his White House telephone and his place in Harry Truman's affections for a dubious purpose: to help his cronies get Government favors and big profits...
...curious coincidence, the Verley Co. was the same firm which employed John Maragon, sometime Kansas City bootblack and long one of Vaughan's sharp-eyed friends, who reportedly once tried to smuggle some precious perfume oil into the country as "champagne for Mrs. Truman" (TIME...
Before Gross could name the other officials to whom the freezers had been shipped, the committee cut him off-it wanted to be certain before taking more public testimony. But that did not stop newspapers from printing some names: among them those of Mrs. Harry Truman and Chief Justice Fred Vinson...
...playing low-grade county-courthouse politics. At week's end, the President was still sticking firmly to the position he had assumed during his weekly press conference -that nothing which had happened had changed his opinion of his old friend Harry Vaughan in the slightest. Mulling Harry Truman's stubborn friendship for his military aide, the Washington Post had a suggestion to make: ". . . it seems to us that the time has come for the general to demonstrate his friendship [in turn] for the President... by resigning and so sparing his patron any further embarrassments...
Barkley was a mite stiff in the joints, but his eagerness to kiss a pretty girl was as well known as his homespun quip. President Harry Truman, signing a bill authorizing a special Barkley medal for his long and distinguished record in Congress, jokingly displayed a LIFE spread of Barkley cavorting with a Washington hostess, as evidence of his "service." Mr. Truman might have added that since Barkley took office in January, he has made more speeches (62 in 21 states), crowned more queens, and bussed more babies than any Vice President of record...