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Word: trumans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Would General Vaughan be permitted to testify if a Senate subcommittee calls him for questioning? Mr. Truman answered firmly. Certainly, said the President; he certainly will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The General Gets His Orders | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

This week, after costing taxpayers $3,700,000,000, the 52-20 club lost its charter. Harry Truman and many governors-who did not want to dip into their state's own unemployment compensation funds-wanted 52-20 continued. But Congress failed to act before the law expired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VETERANS: Halted Gravy Train | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

First, should the federal Government provide money to improve education in states not rich enough to maintain good public schools? Could this be done without threatening the independence of the public schools? Harry Truman answered yes to both questions and incorporated the program in his Fair Deal. The U.S. Senate agreed when it passed its aid-to-education bill. But if such aid became a permanent policy of Government, would the nation's schools ultimately and inevitably fall into the hands of federal control? Should parochial and private schools which teach Christianity be excluded from federal aid and left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: My Day in the Lion's Mouth | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...like Miller with ease. But two other conservative candidates might divide Harry Byrd's traditional bloc of 110,000 to 130,000 machine-turned votes. They were Horace Edwards, 46, former mayor of Richmond, who broke with the machine last year when Byrd tried to keep Harry Truman's name off Virginia's ballot ; and Remmie L. Arnold, a pen & pencil maker and inveterate "joiner" (he is slated to become Imperial Potentate of the Shrine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIRGINIA: Busy Byrdmen | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

Democrat Irving has been the duly elected representative of Harry S. Truman and 250,000 other constituents of Missouri's Fourth District since last November. A fortnight ago, in a court suit, 85 members of his union suggested that he was also a crook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSOURI: Trouble at Home | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

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