Word: trumans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...somehow Harry Truman sounded a little like a man who was damned if he was going to come down with the flu, even though he already had the sniffles. This week, in the longer, drier sentences of his midyear economic report to Congress, the President frankly admitted that there were some reasons for feeling bearish...
...decline has been moderate," insisted Harry Truman. So far there had been no speculators' spree, no sudden upsurge of personal debt, none of the familiar warning signals of an economic smashup. But in this "transition period," he admitted, there was no longer any point to the whole kit & caboodle of anti-inflation controls which he had been demanding. Nor was there, he acknowledged, any longer a possibility of the $4 billion tax increase he had asked for last January...
Whatever that meant, there was no mistaking Harry Truman's concern for the change in economic climate. The report made no mention of the economic storms building up in Europe, but Treasury Secretary John Snyder was already heavily engaged on the foreign front, trying to work out a way of saving Britain's dwindling dollar reserves (see INTERNATIONAL) . Back on Capitol Hill, Maryland's Millard Tydings let it be known last week that his Senate Armed Services Committee had presidential permission to whack almost a billion dollars out of the armed forces' budget...
...history. New on the federal bench, he had been put in charge of the calendar for May (a rotating position) and had assigned himself to the Hiss trial. He had been recommended for a judgeship by Tammany Hall and by Bronx Boss Ed Flynn; nominated by Harry Truman, and confirmed by the 81st Congress-though Kaufman was refused endorsement by the Federal Bar Association of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut and by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. His appointment had been supported by one group-the New York County Lawyers' Association...
Washington showed no sign of reactivating its China policy. In fact, the Truman Administration never had a determined policy aimed at stopping communism in China. Its loudest alibi has been that Chiang Kai-shek was a liability. This may be true today, partly as a result of ineffective U.S. policy and partly as a result of Chiang's own spectacular failure to keep the confidence of his people. If Washington ever gets a vigorous Asiatic policy it might be able to bypass Chiang. Meanwhile, defeated or not, discredited or not, Chiang at least made more sense than any statement...