Word: washington
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With time out for a relaxed Thanksgiving Day, Harry Truman had worked hard all week cleaning up his desk. But at week's end, he turned out with the rest of official Washington to hear Margaret Truman sing with the National Symphony Orchestra. From the presidential box, her father beamed down as she sang Mozart's Dove Sono and Glazunov's La Primavera. She was called back for three encores, sang one-Smilin' Through-directly at her parents. "I wept," said proud Harry Truman unabashedly. "I almost tore up two programs in the excitement...
...critics, like other critics during her 14-city tour, had mixed reactions. The Times-Herald found that "the fresh and brilliant luster of two years ago has been exchanged for a warmth and depth of tone that the music lovers found exciting." The Washington Post admitted some improvement but added tartly: "Miss Truman is too much of a vocal beginner to appear in public...
Next morning, having read the press notices, the President with wife, daughter, and staff, took off from Washington's national airport for the warm breezes and whispering palms of Key West. There he would have to do some work-on the State of the Union message, on the budget, on finding a replacement for retiring Atomic Energy Commission Chairman David Lilienthal (see The Administration). But Harry Truman planned to spend as much of his three weeks as he could just loafing...
Before leaving Washington, the President...
...Consul in Peiping relayed the report to Washington. From Ward's skimpy recapitulation and the splutterings of the Communist Chinese radio, the State Department pieced together the humiliating story. After holding the U.S. consulate members incommunicado for nearly a month (TIME, Nov. 21), the Communists had staged a hasty "trial," and convicted Ward and his aides of "brutally assaulting" a Chinese servant. The Reds' kangaroo court sentenced the five to jail for three to six months, imposed a stiff fine, then suspended the sentences and ordered them deported...