Word: vinson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President," said Chief Justice Fred Vinson, "will you raise your right hand?" Harry Truman's right hand went up, his left stretched out to rest on two Bibles: a White House copy, opened at the Sermon on the Mount, and a copy of the Gutenberg edition, opened at the Ten Commandments...
...memoirs, Trohan had stirred up many a cat & dogfight among old New Dealers. But Trohan, who will get $19,000 a year, is also an able spring-legged reporter when he puts himself to it; he scooped everyone on President Truman's abortive plan to send Chief Justice Vinson to Moscow. Like Henning, Trohan believes in the infallibility of Colonel McCormick. Says he: "When the Colonel sneezes, the walls reverberate throughout the Tribune Tower, and even here in the bureau. But the Colonel pays for the reverberations...
...chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Rep. Carl Vinson (D.--Ga.), has said he does not want to take up UMT while the draft is on. And Rep. Adolph J. Sabath (D.--Ill.), chairman of the important House Rules Committee, has come out against...
Secretary of State George Marshall had remained scrupulously aloof from politics, as Truman knew he would. There had been friction between them-especially over Palestine and the Vinson Affair. But Harry Truman has never lost his great respect for Marshall, nor is he unmindful of the prestige and authority Marshall carries on Main Street as well as in Moscow. Last week, Marshall yearned more than ever for retirement, but the President pleaded with him to stay, fully aware, however, that some time, probably in a matter of months, the old soldier would have to be given his well-earned rest...
...Visits to Moscow. The President's way of behaving himself was to end, once & for all, any speculation that he might be thinking of another "Vinson mission" to Moscow. There would be no negotiations with Russia, he said, while Russia blockaded Berlin. He would be happy to talk to Stalin, he added, but only if Stalin came to Washington (highly unlikely...