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Truman

[ US /ˈtɹumən/ ]
NOUN
  1. elected vice president in Roosevelt's 4th term; became 33rd President of the United States on Roosevelt's death in 1945 and was elected President in 1948; authorized the use of atomic bombs against Japan (1884-1972)

How To Use Truman In A Sentence

  • Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. Harry S. Truman 
  • In 1949 President Harry S. Truman signed the Organic Act, which established Guam as an unincorporated territory, with limited self-rule.
  • All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it. Harry S Truman 
  • The step sought by Virginia, known as certiorari before judgment, is one the court has taken only a handful of times, including its 1974 decision ordering President Richard Nixon to turn over Oval Office tape recordings and its 1952 ruling blocking President Harry S Truman from seizing the nation's steel mills. Chron.com Chronicle
  • ‘Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go,’ said Truman Capote and suddenly we knew it was time to leave the feminine wiles of this ancient city with its masks and mystery.
  • It has been assumed by some people, especially those with an interest in discrediting George Marshall and the Truman administration, that this truce prevented Chiang from conquering Manchuria .
  • But by the following year it was fully committed to covert anti-communist operations under the Truman Doctrine.
  • Second was the failure of the recent Truman Doctrine – an outspoken scheme to help Greece and Turkey fight Soviet pressures – to indicate a constructive way forward for all.
  • Truman next tried, unsuccessfully, to mobilize the Protestant leaders of the World Council of Churches in a ‘religious anti-communist front’ against the Soviet Union.
  • U.S. President Harry S. Truman was introduced to a prothonotary during a campaign stop in Pittsburgh in 1948. Matthew Yglesias » For Less Voting
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