Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In Truman's second mid-term election, Republicans ran against Truman's proposed domestic policies and his handling of the Korean War. They picked up seats in both the House and the senate, but failed to gain control of either house of Congress. [296] Truman was particularly upset by the apparent success of those who campaigned on McCarthyism. [297]
Truman did not pay off the last of the debts from that venture until 1935, when he did so with the aid of banker William T. Kemper, who worked behind the scenes to enable Truman's brother Vivian to buy Truman's $5,600 promissory note during the asset sale of a bank that had failed in the Great Depression.
The length of a full four-year term of office for a president of the United States usually amounts to 1,461 days (three common years of 365 days plus one leap year of 366 days). The listed number of days is calculated as the difference between dates , which counts the number of calendar days except the first day ( day zero ).
Truman looked outside his second floor window, 31 feet (9.4 m) from the attacker. [15] [16] Secret Service agents shouted at Truman to get away from the window. [citation needed] At that same moment, Coffelt left the guard booth, propped against it, and fired his .38-caliber service revolver at Torresola, about 30 feet (10 m) away.
On December 12, 2024, Biden commuted the sentences of 1,499 people and pardoned another 39 convicted of non-violent offenses [107] who had been released from prison to home incarceration during the COVID-19 pandemic, in the "largest single-day grant of clemency in modern history". [108]
On a hot August afternoon, a 62-year-old man, dressed in green swimming trunks, took a dip in Cape Henlopen. And yes, it was President Truman.
Then, Truman got on top of the man and continued to hit him, prosecutors said. Now Truman has pleaded guilty to assault with a dangerous weapon, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern ...
James M. Curley (D-MA) fined $1,000 (equivalent to $14,082 in 2024) and served six months for fraud before Harry S. Truman commuted the rest of his sentence (1947). [26] Andrew J. May (D-KY) convicted of accepting bribes from a war munitions manufacturer. Was sentenced to 9 months in prison, after which he was pardoned by Truman (1947). [27]