Word: trumans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Plan. Few legislators disputed the need for military aid; but many were critical of the manner, timing, and amount. Harry Truman had asked for virtually a free hand to allocate arms and money wherever and whenever he thought they were needed, on whatever terms he chose. Administration spokesmen admitted that they could not estimate accurately how long the program might run, or how much it would ultimately cost...
Reminiscing in Chicago last week about his 1948 election victory (which is one of the things he likes to do most), Harry Truman dropped a gleeful footnotelet to the campaign...
...year Congressman, Leonard Irving had been living pretty well for a $125-a-week boss of Local 264 - each of whose 1,800 members had paid a $59 initiation fee for the right to dig a ditch or hoist a hod. His campaign for nomination (which President Truman did not support) had been expensive. In Washington, he rented an eleven-room house on fashionable Marlboro Pike, sported two Cadillacs, and dressed like a Texas banker...
...York, Publisher Sulzberger replied: "I have always assumed that a conversation with the Pope was as confidential as one that might be had with the President of the U.S. . . ." The good grey Times printed the Truman anecdote in full, together with Publisher Sulzberger's reply, coyly headlined the story: TRUMAN THE VICTOR AND IT IS ADMITTED...
...hard work paid off in a lively concert by the yo-piece student-teacher band before a crowd of 1,200. Main event of the evening: Grieg's Concerto in A Minor, with Guest Pianist Eugene List, the ex-G.I. who played for Truman and Stalin at Potsdam, as soloist...