Word: trumans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newsmen: "My only political intention is to represent my constituents of the 20th District of New York . . . I'm not a crystal-ball gazer, and therefore don't go any further than the immediate foreseeable future." Later, he went to the White House to assure President Truman of his loyalty. "We had a nice chat," reported Congressman Roosevelt. "I told him there was no question that I was a member of ... the team of which he was captain and quarterback." A reporter wanted to know if he felt at home in the White House. "Yes-if you mean...
Harold Burton, ex-mayor of Cleveland, ex-Senator from Ohio, the lone Republican, a close friend of Harry Truman who appointed him. An amiable man, outpaced by his hard-running colleagues, generally regarded as the least effective justice on the court...
Last week in Washington, Louisville Publisher Mark F. Ethridge, U.S. delegate to the commission, submitted his report to President Truman. The core of the Arab-Israeli deadlock, Ethridge told the President, is the problem of Arab refugees, who have been scrabbling out piecemeal existences in the impoverished Arab states around Israel ever since the British mandate ended 13 months ago. At Lausanne, representatives from four Arab states (Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt) steadfastly refused to discuss a final peace settlement until Israel agreed to accept a large proportion of the Arab refugees. The Israelis resisted all attempts to get them...
...When I wandered up, a crowd encircled me. One bespectacled youth poked a pugnacious finger in my collar and said: 'Will you tell your American friends that we reject the plans of murderer Truman and American imperialists to start another war so they can use cheap soldiers of India to crush Soviet democracy?' Breathlessly he spun out the usual cliches, and wound up: 'Nehru is a Fascist reactionary who smokes cigarettes with Churchill and offers British warmongers the sweet mangoes and sweet tongues of India...
Long-distance Call. González Videla put in a call to Manhattan, where Economics Minister Alberto Baltra, after attending a U.N. economic conference in Havana, was waiting to ship out for home. Acting on instructions, Baltra this week asked President Harry Truman to do what he could to scotch revival of the copper tariff. He also asked for a U.S. loan of $45 million for foreign exchange...