Word: two
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...political questions at Harry Truman's weekly press conference was interrupted by NBC's Earl Godwin. "Mr. President," he began, "I have a question which is obviously planted." Harry Truman laughed at the frank admission and told him to go ahead. Godwin explained that he had two friends in the theater business and they thought there was a great revival in vaudeville-which meant re-employment for a lot of people. "That is a planted question," said Godwin, "so please say something nice about...
...Showing. Harry Truman, who is never happier than when he is off on the old political two-a-day himself, was in bubbling spirits. On Labor Day, he had tried out his act again for the first time since last fall, and it was still the unchallenged best on the political boards...
Only once was he booed: at the Cleveland air races, by two large, anonymous men sitting in the spectators' section marked "Public Officials." The rest of the time he was well received. At a luncheon on his 60th birthday, the Republicans of Parkman sang "Happy Birthday, dear Bob." At Lakewood's Westlake Hotel at a gathering of 400 clubwomen, a lady soloist sang Thank God for a Garden, coming down hard on the last line: "Thank God for you." She meant the Senator, she explained...
...Friendship's Sake? His death raised a delicate problem for President Truman, faced with the necessity of appointing a second new justice within two months. Under ordinary circumstances the appointment almost certainly would go to Rhode Island's J. Howard McGrath, a Roman Catholic, who had hoped to get Catholic Frank Murphy's seat but dutifully took the U.S. attorney generalship when Harry Truman chose Tom C. Clark...
...Two Army generals who had been suspended from duty since they bobbed up in the Senate's investigation of five-percenters (TIME, Aug. 22 et seq.) got the word from on high last week. Major General Herman Feldman was reprimanded for passing out information on Government purchasing plans, but restored to duty as the Army's Quartermaster General. Major General Alden H. Waitt, 56, who had tried to wangle a second term as chief of the Chemical Corps by running down all his potential rivals, was sacked: he went into retirement on a $6,600-a-year pension...