Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Businessmen recently had been receiving reassuring clucks from Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer, but that might be expected of a man with Sawyer's business background. Last week none other than Leon Keyserling, for 17 years an avid New Dealer and Fair Dealer, looked up from a new study of business and announced a new "trend of thinking." The Government, said Keyserling, approves of businessmen; it loves them just as much, say, as it loves the farmers and organized labor...
What Keyserling wrote had to be put against what the President had to say in his messages to Congress this week. But at the very least it looked as if the Administration, however tardily, however motivated, had come to acknowledge one of the chief sources of the prosperity it was basking...
Fifteen hundred people, four horses and one pigeon turned out in the center of Havana, Ill. (pop. 5,000) one night last week for a torchlight parade. On North Plum Street the pigeon left the parade and soared in an easterly direction to carry the tidings to Harry Truman in Washington. The message, which the Pres ident had already gotten from sources faster than a carrier pigeon,* was that Scott Lucas, majority leader of the U.S. Senate, had officially decided to seek reelection...
Harry Truman's holiday week back home in Missouri had obviously been "a very nice time," as he said afterwards, but he had made it plain that he had brought his work along. He begged off meeting with old cronies, vetoed onetime Partner Eddie Jacobson's scheme to make him an honorary fire chief and give him a red helmet, and skipped a party given in his honor by Kansas City's Truman Democratic Club, thereby generating a certain atmosphere of pique-the boys weren't really angry, but they were disappointed. Most of his days...
...been given to him by Sculptor Charles Keck in 1934. Harry Truman had been unable to use it or give it away, and it had languished in Keek's studio for 15 years. But as a gift from a President it had become eminently acceptable and last week a crowd of 1,500 gathered to crane at its donor...