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...years coal miners never had to ask that question. With the autocratic John L. Lewis in command, the United Mine Workers of America stood in the vanguard of American labor. Lewis staged epic brawls with Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, and the strikes he called paralyzed the economy, but his union grew strong. The greatest Lewis victory occurred in 1947 when he got the operators to pay 100 on every ton of coal mined to miners' retirement funds and lifelong free medical benefits...
...artist, said, 'Just your name, Mr. Proust. No thoughts.' ") The U.S. he sees as still an open society, free and easy, rambunctious, optimistic, cheerfully ready to build on both its successes and its mistakes. He likes American lingo and quotes a lot of it (Harry Truman on Jack Kennedy: "He had his ear so close to the ground it was full of grasshoppers"). He likes interstate highways, supermarkets, fast-food shops, fast talkers, the entire "discardo" culture. He likes the chanciness of the San Andreas fault, on which he now lives in California...
...said there is a need for specialists in that area because Truman F. Bewley, associate professor of Economics and an econometrics specialist, is leaving at the end of the year. He added, however, the department did not hire Erickson specifically as a replacement...
Appropriately, the reporter who interviewed Weinstein for this week's story was Senior Correspondent James Bell, who covered the Hiss trials for TIME. "I had spent all of 1948 on the campaign trail with Harold Stassen, Harry Truman, Earl Warren and Tom Dewey," recalls Bell. "I was the only member of the Washington bureau who was totally ignorant of the case, and I felt none of the emotion that appeared to grip my colleagues who had covered the Hiss story on Capitol Hill. It was precisely for that reason that I was picked to report the trial." For TIME...
...Harry Truman hardly used the camp at all, preferring a Key West retreat. For President Eisenhower, though, the setting was so special that he renamed it in 1953 after his five-year-old grandson...