Word: trumans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Andrew Jackson and capture Vermont's electoral votes. A century later, Franklin Roosevelt, a 32nd degree Mason, won the electoral votes of every state in the Union except Vermont and Maine. Altogether, 13 U.S. Presidents have been Masons; some others: Johnson, McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Harding, and Harry Truman...
...33rd degree is purely honorary. Harry Truman is the first President to receive the 33rd degree (Warren G. Harding was named, but died before going through the ceremony). Among the 4,200 honorary 33rd degree Masons: Generals Douglas MacArthur, Mark Clark and Jimmy Doolittle, Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Supreme Court Justice Harold Burton, Publisher Roy Howard...
...Ardery, a young politician had come to his home in search of advice. The visitor said that he and two other young fellows had forged a batch of ballots and stuffed them into ballot boxes before the polls opened. The bogus ballots had been discovered (253 marked for President Truman and Democratic Senator Virgil Chapman, one for Chapman's Republican opponent). The judge's caller was worried...
...ships are sinking, it is no time to talk of weddings." Later, however, he consented. The wedding was celebrated with a raid on a village, feasting, singing and dancing. Marianthi, of course, did not dance, but she was moved by the strains of her favorite song: "Ossa sidera o Truman na rixi nikitis thane panto, o laos" (However much iron Truman throws in, the people will always be victorious...
Died. Alexander Fell Whitney, 76, militant $17,500-a-year president (since 1928) of the 216,000-strong Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen; of a heart attack; in Bay Village, Ohio. Whitney once vowed to unseat President Truman after the unsuccessful 1946 rail strike ("You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear and you can't make a President out of a ribbon salesman"). He later backtracked and gave Truman all-out support. Said the President in his message of condolence: "[He] became . . . the exemplar of the philosopher's teaching that...