Word: trumans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...United States, et al. appeared from their chambers and sat behind the massive mahogany bench. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger shuffled his papers for a long moment and then began to read the decision constituting the sharp est judicial blow to a President since the court rejected Harry Truman's attempt to seize the nation's steel mills...
...Morse's defense, it can only be said that his invective was impartial and bipartisan. He accused Harry Truman of putting on "one of the cheapest exhibitions of ham acting I have ever seen." He said that Lyndon Johnson was "drunk with power." The corpulent G.O.P. Senator Homer Capehart was a "tub of rancid ignorance...
...first six months in the Senate, Morse made more speeches than all the other freshmen combined. He started to take stands without regard I to party position or leadership preference. He backed President Truman when he vetoed the Taft-Hartley Act, when he seized the nation's steel mills in an effort to forestall a strike and when he fired General Douglas MacArthur. Though Morse fervently supported Dwight Eisenhower for the G.O.P. presidential nomination in 1952, he became disillusioned by Ike's cautious civil rights stand and by his choice of Richard Nixon as a running mate. Switching...
...alltime low. Created under the 1946 Employment Act in part to provide the President with the best professional advice on reducing the jobless rate, the council has had its share of controversy. For example, Congress became so antagonized by CEA Chief Leon Keyserling's partisan support of Truman Administration policies that President Eisenhower let the council go out of business briefly...
...made the first radical change in the principle of open seas. President Harry S. Truman, worried by World War II's drain on domestic petroleum reserves, declared in 1945 that the nation owned the resources on and under its continental shelf, which extends as much as 700 miles out to sea (off Alaska). He did not claim either the fish in the water or any rights over ship transit. But a few other nations, starting with Chile in 1947, drew no such distinctions and declared that they owned the waters extending for various distances from their coasts. Today, while...